Hannah Paterson is the NUS Disabled Students' Officer.
Sat 20 Apr 2013
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Dan Higgins Congrats, you survived! It's been a whirlwind of a year. You've probably learnt more than you ever learnt...
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Dan Higgins Please note the following blog is about violent hate crime At NUS National Conference a Vigil was held for Steven...
Tue 19 Mar 2013
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Dan Higgins On Friday it was Red Nose Day, a day where you get to watch on the telly hours and hours...
Fri 01 Feb 2013
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Dan Higgins The following is a guest blog by Edd Graham-Hyde - UCLan Students’ Union President. I’ve read through some of...
Wed 05 Dec 2012
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Dan Higgins I just wanted to say a huge thank you to every single person who came out for International Day of...
Tue 04 Dec 2012
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Dan Higgins Today is United Nations Disabled People Day. I have spent most of it procastinating and avoiding writing about my disability...
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Dan Higgins Coming Out As Disabled So yesterday (3/12/12) was the International Day of Disabled People, we’re also still...
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Dan Higgins I've started this about four times- how do you come out as disabled? It's something I've been...
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Dan Higgins As I sit listening to my first day of Christmas carols on the television I think back to 1999, 2000...
Mon 03 Dec 2012
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Dan Higgins Today is the UN International Day of Disabled People which marks the great contribution disabled people have made in our...
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Dan Higgins People see me walking around using one crutch to steady myself but most do not know what my disability is...
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Dan Higgins When I volunteered to write my disabled 'coming out' story, I was somewhat tentative. I'm currently going through a...
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Dan Higgins International Day of Disabled People Identifying as disabled is no longer something to be overlooked. To identify as disabled is...
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Dan Higgins So I found out that I was dyslexic when I was 22 in my 1st year of University and it...
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Dan Higgins When I started writing this blog I started by talking about the positive impact that realising I was dyslexic had...
Wed 28 Nov 2012
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Dan Higgins The Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) is an independent body set up to review students complaints against Higher Education...
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Dan Higgins We will consider your alternatives when you stop giving us lip service My second national NUS Demo, and I was...
Mon 19 Nov 2012
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Dan Higgins So this has come round incredibly fast, feels like I only got elected a few weeks ago and were already...
Thu 25 Oct 2012
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Dan Higgins This time of year is a really hard one for sabbs. You've survived the gruelling summer training courses, the...
Fri 19 Oct 2012
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Dan Higgins Hello all, So the days, weeks and months are flying past so here's another update about the things I...