According to a recent white paper from the UK&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nadsn-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Towards-a-fully-inclusive-environment-for-disabled-people-in-STEMM.pdf">National Association of Disabled Staff Networks</a>, 22% of working-age people in the UK have a disability compared to less than 7% of people working in science. At the upper echelons of science, only 4% of senior academic positions are filled with people with disabilities and just 1% of research grant applications to UK Research and Innovation are from researchers who disclose being disabled.

These disappointing statistics are reported in “<a href="https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/92658/">Towards a fully inclusive environment for disabled people in STEMM</a>” and this podcast features an interview with one of its authors – the physicist <a href="https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/about-us/people/francesca-doddato">Francesca Doddato</a>.
Based at Lancaster University, Doddato tells Physics World’s Michael Banks about the challenges facing scientists with disabilities – and calls for decision makers to engage with the issues and to remove barriers.

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