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IP Ability is the IP Inclusive community for disabled people, carers and their allies working within the IP professions.Β 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.

Please do visit our resources and articlesΒ page to access useful resources, articles, blogs and event recordings covering a range of relevant issues, concerns, advice and support. To receive updates about our future activities and events, sign up to the IP Inclusive mailing listΒ hereΒ 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 β€œupdate your preferences”.)

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 LinkedInΒ 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.

 

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Allies, IP & ME, IP Ability, Lunch and Learn, Women in IP

Through a different lens

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Allies, Webinars, Women in IP

Allyship and preventing sexual harassment – are you ready for the Worker Protection Act?

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Knowing Me, Knowing You? ADHD And the IP Profession

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Disability, IP Ability, Neurodiversity

Myth-Busting Disability and Neurodiversity

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Neurodiversity, Regional events, Scotland network

IP Inclusive Scotland Network event: Neuro-inclusion

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Carers, IP Ability, Webinars

All you need to know about the new Carer’s Leave Act

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Allies, Regional events, Workplace behaviour

Help! How do I start a conversation on EDI?

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IPause, Menopause, Remote access meeting, Social, Women in IP

Menopause Matters: It takes a village

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IPause, Menopause, Webinars, Women in IP

Supporting the (peri)menopause life-stage with life-style

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IP Ability, Menopause, Webinars, Women in IP

Better eating for beating (peri)menopause

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Disability, IP Ability, Unconscious bias, Webinars

Beyond Labels: Challenging the Stigma of ‘Disabled’

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Menopause, Webinars, Women in IP

Menopause Myths

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IP Ability, Mental health, Webinars, Women in IP

Shining a light on the menopause

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Disability, IP Ability, Webinars

How to be Disability Confident – and why it matters

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IP Ability, Menopause, Remote access meeting, Women in IP

Menopause matters: symptoms, treatments & coping strategies

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Inclusivity Unlocked!, Menopause, Webinars

Menopause: what’s changing?

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Disability, Inclusivity Unlocked!, Webinars

Online, but not forgotten

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IP Ability, Menopause, Remote access meeting, Women in IP

Menopause matters

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Inclusivity Unlocked!, Webinars, Working arrangements

Leaving no one behind (part ii)

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Disability, IP Ability, Remote access meeting

Real lives: a Disability Pride Month webinar

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Disability, IP Ability, Neurodiversity, Webinars

Workplace adjustments – joint webinar with CIPA

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Mental health, Webinars

Mental health & intersectionality

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Disability, IP Ability, Remote access meeting, Social

IP Ability & IPO Mixer in honour of International Day of Persons with Disabilities

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Disability, IP Ability, Neurodiversity, Webinars

Late diagnosis of, and gender differences in, neurodiversity

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Mental health, Webinars

Not just for Movember…

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Disability, Hybrid event, IP Out

Disability and LGBT: Hidden Intersections and Experiences

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Carers, IP Ability, IP Non-traditional Family Network, Webinars

Carers and solo parents at work

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IP Ability, Regional events, Remote access meeting, Social, Women in IP

Women in IP May coffee dates

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IP Ability, Mental health, Webinars

IP Ability’s stress management webinar

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Disability, Webinars

Reasonable adjustments – what are they, and how can we get them right?

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Disability, IP Ability, Remote access meeting

IP Ability event: International Day of Persons with Disabilities

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Allies, IP & ME, IP Ability, IP Futures, IP Out, Regional events, Remote access meeting, Women in IP

How to be a better ally: answers to those questions you’ve always wanted to ask

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Disability, IP Ability, Webinars

Dyslexia and dyspraxia demystified

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Disability, IP Ability, Webinars

Invisible disabilities

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Allies, IP & ME, IP Ability, IP Futures, IP Out, Regional events, Remote access meeting, Women in IP

Allies & supporters: Rescheduled

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Allies

Allies & intersectionality: our annual diversity breakfast

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IP Ability, Webinars, Women in IP

Inclusivity and the menopause

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IP Ability

IP Ability: informal launch gathering

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Disability, Webinars

Colleagues on the autism spectrum

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Disability, Webinars

Enabling not Disabling

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IP Ability News & Features

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The IP Ability committee

Victoria Barker

IP Ability committee

Finnegan

Caelia Bryn-Jacobsen (she/her)

IP Ability committee; Advisory Board

Kilburn & Strode

Becky Campbell (she/her)

IP Ability & IP Out committees; Advisory Board

Chris Clarke

IP Ability committee co-lead

Vectura

Steff Jackson

IP Ability committee

HGF

Marianne Privett

IP Ability committee co-lead

AA Thornton

Megan Rannard

IP Ability committee; Advisory Board

Marks & Clerk

Barbara Rigby (she/her)

IP Ability committee

Boult Wade Tennant

Francesca Rivers (she/her)

IP Ability committee

Cancer Research Horizons