Disability History Month (DHM) runs from 16 November to 16 December 2023. Disability History Month is supported by a wide range of disability groups, unions and voluntary organisations, and aims to promote disabled people's rights and their struggle for equality now and in the past.

If you are planning an activity for Disability History Month, or an EDI event at any time of the year, please get in touch with the EDI Centre.

The theme in 2023 was 'disability, children and youth'. Events across Imperial included:

• A discussion panel from Imperial College Union on Unveiling the Past, Shaping the Future: Disability History Panel.
• A special seminar on 'Living with viruses: the health impacts of chronic diseases' from the Department of Infectious Disease

We also ran a communications campaign, featuring:

• Staff members' lived experiences of workplace adjustments
• A bad practice guide to digital accessibility
• Disability changemakers at Imperial

Previous years

In 2022, we published Bringing different perspectives: navigating education and career with a disability. This piece featured:

• Dr Patrick Dunne, Future Leader Fellow (Advanced Research Fellow), Department of Physics
• Jasmine Chan, Undergraduate, Department of Chemistry
• Dr Ad Spiers, Lecturer in Robotics and Machine Learning, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Caroline Gilchrist, Student Wellbeing Adviser, Department of Computing.

In 2019, we published More than meets the eye: Meet five Imperial staff and students with invisible disabilities.