Resource Base
The Premia resource base is home to a range of awareness and development materials for research supervisors, managers, administrators, examiners, research and generic skills trainers, disabled students and graduates, staff developers, non-disabled researchers, careers advisers and others. The aim of all the materials is to make the research environment more accessible to disabled PGR students.
They have been written by a team of project officers, academics and disabled research students. They have grown out of a HEFCE funded disability project based at Newcastle University during which we carried out research to find out what the barriers and issues are for disabled postgraduate research students across the UK and the staff who work with them. What all the students confirmed is that their postgraduate research experience is very different from their lives as disabled undergraduates.
There is information, guidance on maximising research opportunities for disabled students from pre-entry to completion, practical suggestions for removing barriers, best practice, exercises on making reasonable adjustments and anticipating requirements from admissions and selection, induction and supervision to the viva and beyond - all in the context of research activities and communities.