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1. Postgraduate study and short courses that support green skills building and future career goals

   Are you motivated to improve your understanding of sustainability and build specialist skills and knowledge for your future career?

2. Sharing information about your disability

   Many students and graduates with a disability, health condition or neurodiversity worry about whether to tell a prospective or current employer. In legal terms, this is referred to as ‘disclosure’. It is both a balancing act and a personal decision whether and when you want to share information about your disability during the recruitment process or in the workplace.

3. Your rights as a disabled job-seeker or employee

   Understanding the law will allow you to advocate for yourself and know your rights as a disabled job-seeker or employee.

4. Believe in yourself case studies

   Believe in yourself case studies

5. Sources of employment support and advice

   The organisations on this webpage offer a range of advice, support and guidance on recruitment and employment issues including sharing information about your disability or health condition with prospective employers.

6. Self-employment

   Self-employment can be well suited to disabled or neurodivergent students and graduates, if you find it difficult to keep up with traditional work.

7. Glossary

   Do you find yourself confused by the recruitment methods employers use or the different types of work experience you could do to build your skills? Do you know your Right to Work check from your DBS check? Not sure what Access to Work is and how it can help you, or what it means if an employer is ‘Disability Confident’? Our glossary can help!

8. Starting a new job

   If you have accessed support for your disability or health condition throughout school and university, e.g. in the form of a support plan or funding, you might be concerned about similar support being available to you in the workplace.

9. Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers

   The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, launched in June 2008, is an agreement between funders and employers of researchers in the UK and represents a significant development in national policy to support good management of researchers and their careers.

10. Freedom of information

    Find out more about the University Freedom of Information act policies and the standards LJMU holds itself to, as well as how to contact us with any questions you may have relating to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.