Disability Horizons

Listen Hello and welcome to the third edition of Disability Horizons! We have another collection of amazing stories from some very amazing people, most of whom got in touch with us after reading a previous edition, and expressed an interest in sharing their story. We also wanted to thank everyone for the responses received to [...]

Listen Disability Horizons co-editor, Martyn Sibley, shares an article he recently wrote for his blog about his personal experience of relationships. Hello readers! I run a blog called martynsibley.com and I recently launched a new series of blogs called the ‘summer series’. The idea being to pull together my wealth of knowledge and experience of [...]

Listen (photo taken by Lesley Brewin) “You have one life, so live it!” says Barry West, the adventurer, extreme sports enthusiast and conqueror of the UK’s tallest mountains. Despite a serious spinal injury at the age of 19, which left him paralysed from the neck down, Barry has accomplished many extraordinary challenges, which recently included [...]

Listen Matthew King from Bedford, who is about to start his career as a lawyer, completed the New York marathon in 2007 in his chin controlled powered wheelchair, which he uses as a result of a spinal injury. Matt kindly shares his experience of travelling to New York and taking part in the marathon. My [...]

Listen Katy Etherington from London who runs the PA recruitment website PA Pool loves to travel by cruise ship and recently went on a round the world tour! She kindly shares her experiences of cruise travel. There’s a world out there waiting to be explored, but you know, it wasn’t until the ripe old age [...]

Listen Disability Horizons co-editor Srin Madipalli, recently went on a holiday to Tenerife, he writes an article about travelling to one of Europe’s holiday hotspots and his experience going scuba diving again. It was late January and I had been back in the office for three after weeks taking four months off to go travelling [...]

Listen Disability Horizons contributor Sarah Ismail writes about the portrayal of disability in the media and provides an analysis of the current state of affairs. When I was asked to write an article on the representation and portrayal of disabled people in the media, my first thought was ‘where do I start?’ In my last [...]

Listen Rob Smith writes for DH about acquiring his disability and the journey he has taken since. This amazing journey has resulted with the creation of numerous businesses and world of difference to many disabled people. I was very academic at school and achieved good exam results. I started at Warwick University studying Mechanical Engineering [...]

Listen Meet the new trainees on Chartered Institute for Housing’s (CIH’s) Positive Action for Disability project as they develop their career in housing. CIH’s unique programme that creates professional traineeships for disabled people to develop a career in the housing sector has welcomed its second cohort of trainees, and CIH’s Housing magazine has asked some [...]

Listen Sandra Rhodda is Director of Access Tourism New Zealand and Access Tourism Research Programme Leader at the New Zealand Tourism Research Institute (TRI), Auckland University of Technology and she writes about a travel related research project she is currently working on. I work in the area of Access Tourism (also known as Accessible Tourism, [...]