IP Ability is the IP Inclusive community for disabled people, carers and their allies working within the IP professions. We aim to provide a supportive and informative network focusing on issues relating to disability, neurodiversity and health conditions of all kinds, be they mental or physical, visible or invisible, permanent or temporary, sudden onset or progressive.
IP Ability intends to:
- provide support for those already working within the IP professions, in all roles and at all stages of their careers;
- encourage and assist in making the IP professions accessible, inclusive and welcoming for those in the disabled and neurodiverse communities, with health conditions, and in care-giving roles; and
- raise awareness and understanding of disabilities, neurodiversity, health conditions, and care-giving roles within the IP professions.
The IP Ability community is run by a small volunteer committee. If you’re interested in being part of the committee or taking more of an active role in the community, please email us or join our LinkedIn or Facebook group. We would love to hear from you, whether with questions, offers of help or suggestions for future activities. Our current committee members are shown further down this page.
You can read about what we got up to in our first year in this article by committee member Francesca Rivers. Some of our other awareness-raising work is summarised in this “IP Ability in the media” post. To receive updates about our future activities and events, sign up to the IP Inclusive mailing list here and select IP Ability as one of your communities of interest. (Please note that if you’re already signed up to one of our mailing lists, when you submit the form you will be asked to “update your preferences”.)
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