In this episode of Disability and... choreographer and artistic director of Cathy Waller Company, Cathy Waller chats with writer, artist and activist Jess Thom about her recent experience of claiming Access to Work.
Cathy Waller Company works in partnership with disability arts online to deliver Decode, which is a vital service helping disabled creatives to navigate the Access to Work application process.

You can find Disability Arts Online's Access to work guide at disabilityarts.online/atw
Find out more about Decode disabilityarts.online/decode
The postal address for Access to Work is: Access to Work Service Centre, Harrow Jobcentre, Mail Handling Site A, Wolverhampton, WV98 1JE

This month DAO Founding Editor Colin Hambrook is joined on the Disability and... podcast by writer and activist Jet Moon. They discuss Jet's You Are Here project, an online resource which shares interviews and creative output from a survivor's writing group. 

In this months episode of Disability and... Dr Alison Wilde, an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, chats with Dr Ella Houston, a senior lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, about her book Advertising Disability. 

This month on Disability and...curator Aidan Moesby chats to artists Joanne Coates and Louise Mclachlan about their participation in Towards New Worlds, a 'groundbreaking' exhibition of 15 disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists which Aidan co-curated at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Themes from the discussion include identity, the power of photography to tell stories, and the importance of safe spaces like Towards New Worlds for disabled artists. 

This month, Colin Hambrook talks to Dr Colin Cameron, who is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University about The Affirmation Model of disability and his critique of the ableism at the heart of the Equality Act 2010.

This month, Colin Hambrook, Founding Editor of Disability Arts Online, and Paul Wilshaw, Engagement and Advocacy Worker at Mind the Gap, look back at the last three years of the Disability and… podcast.
Going forward, Disability and… will be produced solely by Disability Arts Online, while Mind the Gap will launch their own bi-monthly podcast.
Colin and Paul talk about their favourite interviews and what producing the podcast has meant to them.

In this episode Steph Robson is joined by academic and author Erin Pritchard to talk about Erin's latest book 'Dwarfism, Arts and Advocacy: Creating Our Own Positive Identity'.  

This month, Mind the Gap’s Assistant Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with writer Lucy Bell and Producer Naomi Turner of Documental Theatre. They look at the importance of the role of a Creative Producer, their latest project, ‘Mary and the Matrons’ and the opportunities for learning disabled people in the Southwest.

This month Disability Arts Online's Founding Editor Colin Hambrook speaks to poet, performer and theatre maker Ellen Renton.
Ellen talks about Archive Stories, a project she is working on as part of a collective, creating work in response to both the Paralympic Heritage Trust archive and the National Disability Arts Collection Archive (NDACA).

On this months podcast, Mind The Gap’s Associate Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with Ella and Tim Curtis. Ella is a Special Olympics cycling gold medallist and she is coached by her father Tim. They talk about Ella's cycling journey and the differences between the Special Olympics and Paralympics.