Dr Sammy Li

Assistant Director of Student Affairs (Postgraduate and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion), University of Birmingham

Sammy is an AMOSSHE Executive Member and Assistant Director of Student Affairs (Postgraduate and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) at the University of Birmingham.

: https://www.amosshe.org.uk/about/our-team.html

Mr Jason Hadley-Luxemburg

Disability and Inclusion Advisor, The University of Law

Jason Hadley-Luxemburg is a Disability and Inclusion Advisor at the University of Law and is based at the Manchester campus. He has worked as a disability advisor specialist in higher education for over six years, with particular focus on supporting postgraduate law school students and working within the regulatory environments that govern postgraduate law courses. Jason currently chairs the University of Law Disabled Staff Network and is a former Chair of AccessHE’s Disability Forum.

Jason has particular interest in developing practice to support autistic people, whether students or staff. Alongside, he has worked closely in developing practice to remove the barriers that disabled students can face when accessing reasonable adjustment in education and employment, with a focus on reducing the need for diagnostic evidence, medical or otherwise, and with emphasis on student needs, not specific medical diagnoses.

Prior to his specialist work in higher education, Jason qualified as a teacher and taught History in secondary schools in the UK. Following his time in secondary education, Jason moved into teaching disabled young adults in further education.

: https://www.law.ac.uk/students/support/disability-and-inclusion/
: jason-h-0648bbb3

Mr Brian Lutchmiah

Disability and Inclusion Service Manager, The University of Law

Brian has 20 years’ experience working across statutory, further and higher education. His extensive experience has ranged from teaching and co-ordination to operational and strategic management of direct services to students, and as a senior leader in UK and European organisations. He also has direct lived experience of disability throughout his education and career and has been an active advocate for disabled people across the education sector, hosting and speaking at national and international conferences, and formally representing the UK with European partners on UDL (Universal Design for Learning) principles and development.

Brian is an award-winning former Chair of the National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP, UK) from 2018 to 2021, and is also a former Chair of the Learning Inclusively Network (LINK, Europe), serving as national and European leaders of research and practice on disability, inclusion and equality. He has most recently completed a two-year tenure as Chair of the English Policy Group for UCAS, as part of the UCAS Council, and is the Disability and Inclusion Service Manager at the University of Law.

With a core passion in inclusion and widening participation, Brian has maintained a determination in ensuring that all have the opportunity to aspire in realising their potential, and has represented the education sector in directly influencing national policy decision-making at UK government level.

With his in-depth knowledge of inclusion and related service aspects, including safeguarding and UDL, he continues to strive toward ensuring opportunities to achieve are equitably maintained for all, and fervently believes that equality is a right for all in education, employment and societally.

: https://www.law.ac.uk/students/support/disability-and-inclusion/
: brian-lutchmiah-51853020

Mr Keith Houghton

Head of Student Support and Wellbeing, The University of Law

Keith is an AMOSSHE Executive Member and Head of Student Support and Wellbeing at The University of Law. 

: https://www.amosshe.org.uk/about/our-team.html

Harriet Cannon

Disability Advisory Team Manager, University of Leeds

Harriet has been working with disabled students in higher education for 25 years. She has worked in Disability Services at the University of Leeds since 2007, first as a Disability Coordinator, and now as the Disability Team Manager, having previously led on disability support for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Harriet is a Director of the National Association of Disability Practitioners, as well as a Senior Accredited Member. She sits on the Office of the Independent Adjudicator’s Disability Experts Panel, the Advance HE Disabled Student Commitment Partnership Group, the Department for Education’s Higher Education Autism Advisory Group, and she founded the Association of Autism Practitioners in Higher Education. Harriet has a particular interest in inclusive pedagogies, inclusive assessment, and competence standards.

: https://students.leeds.ac.uk/disabledstudents
: harrietcannon
: @HarrietCannon

Caroline Huntley

Head of Disability Service, University of the Arts London (UAL)

Caroline Huntley has worked in the disability sector in the fields of education and employment for almost 40 years. Prior to her work in higher education, she worked with assistive technology, employment advice and training and was a qualified speech and language therapist, working for 10 years in a specialist primary school with children described as having complex needs.

Since 2012, Caroline has worked in the Disability Service at University of the Arts London and has been Head of Service for three years. She also served on the board of NADP (National Association of Disability Practitioners) for five years, the latter three as Chair. Away from work, Caroline is a current trustee of The Seeing Dogs Alliance and Chair of her local community radio station, Derby Sound, as well as being a qualified mediator and coach (not sport!) both of which are practiced voluntarily.

: https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/student-services/disability-and-dyslexia