Impact statement

You can draft your impact statement in the form below and it will be submitted to the Disability Advice Team – we will look over it and then either make suggestions to you for any significant changes or we will go ahead and publish it. We may also edit it slightly, without changing the meaning, because the system we use can only accept certain characters. 

There may be up to one month between you submitting the statement online and it being visible to your teaching team on their classlist.

Please note: We may not be able to publish your impact statement if you do not provide your evidence as per the instructions on the form, or you indicate that we already hold your evidence, if we do not hold it. If you are a student carer, UWE Cares must have seen evidence of your caring responsibilities.

Submit your statement

Or alternatively, if you have an enquiry about writing an impact statement, get in touch with the Disability Service via our enquiry form.

Partner college students

If you study at a UWE Bristol Partner College, you are welcome to submit an impact statement but you are advised to also submit this directly to the College. If you submit to UWE Bristol, your impact statement will be seen by the UWE Bristol staff members involved in your teaching and will be shared with your College but this will not be immediately.

An impact statement is a short paragraph or sentence about your impairment or caring responsibilities, the impact on your study, and the strategies you have in place to help. This is then shared with your teaching team via online classlists so that they can support you in the best way.

• Your teaching staff will be able to see your statement when they view their online classlist in addition to Student and Academic Services staff.
• Current students: you can see your statement in MYUWE Your info.
• Applicants: you can see your statement in MYUWE when you become a student.

Your teaching staff are already able to see what reasonable adjustments are in place for you and also a disability category (eg mental health condition, Specific Learning Difficulty, D/deaf or hard of hearing) on your classlist if you have disclosed. You can check what reasonable adjustments and disability category are held on the system by checking MYUWE. The impact statement is designed to provide further information to your teaching staff, if you would like to do so.

Suggestions for your impact statement:

• Impact statements give us a valuable opportunity to share positive messages about disability, so please include details of strategies and solutions as well as highlighting any relevant issues.
• Include the name or type of impairment, medical condition, mental health condition, or specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia (you don’t need to put lots of detail in).
• Consider the impact on your study and details of any relevant strategies used, such as study skills tuition, mentoring support, assistive software or technology.
• Include short details about your caring responsibilities.
• Whether you're happy for staff to approach you to discuss further.
• If some of your study will be taking place in a lab, you can use the impact statement to describe what barriers you may come across in the lab, eg. noisy environment interferes with my processing, etc.
• Ideally your impact statement should be short, to the point and shouldn’t tell lots of history.
• The maximum number of characters, including spaces, for your impact statement is 1000.

Please don't include the following in your impact statement:

• What year or programme you’re on – they already know.
• What reasonable adjustments you have – your teaching staff can see this on their classlist next to your impact statement. If there is an adjustment that you need that you don’t have in place, please make an appointment to see one of our Advisers.
• Any special characters, such as :;/() – the system we use to keep a record of your impact statement doesn't accept these characters.