Employability Support For Disabled Students
Employability Support For Disabled Students
WRIPA helps support disadvantaged physics students to connect with employer networks and successfully apply for work experience opportunities.
WRIPA helps support disadvantaged physics students to connect with employer networks and successfully apply for work experience opportunities.
Mind is a mental health charity who “provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. Mind campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding” (Mind 2021).
WRIPA partners with Mind to run stress management courses for undergraduate physicists. The course looks at how stress affects behaviour and the body, the impact of it on mental health and how to utilise tools to promote good mental health.
Contact your student advisor for further information or guidance
NAS helps autistic people in the UK and their families by running specialist schools, campaigning for improved rights or training companies on being more autism-friendly (NAS 2021).
NAS attended the last WRIPA Physics Industry Recruitment and Placement Fair and sat on a neurodiversity panel discussion to promote the work that they do to our undergraduate physicists and also answer questions from our neurodivergent students around employability skills.
Contact your student advisor for further information or guidance
Living Autism helps people with autism and neurodivergence to find information they may need and services that will support them. This could be around coaching and mentoring, counselling or using their placement support service.
WRIPA partnered with Living Autism to run an employability skills training workshop for undergraduate physicists which allowed them to understand their strengths, develop their CV writing skills and improve their interview techniques.
Contact your student advisor for further information or guidance