UK Disability History Month
16th November to 16th December
Launch Theme: Disability, Health and Well-Being
7 pm GMT to 8.40 pm Thursday 17th November 2022
Chair: Richard Rieser
Daniel Kebede: NEU Past President
Debs Williams: CEO Broadcasters’ Network
Richard Rieser: UKDHM Coordinator
Linda Burnip: Co-founder Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC)
Jon Luxton: Disability Equality Adviser to Welsh Government
Ellen Clifford: Author of ‘War on Disabled People’
Andrew Lee: Director of People First (National)
Alison Wide, Anis Akhtar, Ruth Malkin: Community Curators of Manchester People’s History Museum Exhibition “Nothing About Us Without Us”
Dolly Sen: Mental Health Survivor, Artist, Researcher
Colin Barnes: Author, ex Head of Leeds University Disability Research Unit
To join the online launch: email your interest to callumrussell@crconsultancy.org
You will be sent the zoom link 24 hours before the event.
Please include name, telephone number and any relevant organisation. We will be producing resources to raise the theme in your workplace, college or school before the launch. See website www.ukdhm.org
Film of launch event will go up on website.
Richard Rieser Coordinator UKDHM rlrieser@gmail.com
