Nominations for Year 3 are OPEN
Celebrate disabled and neurodivergent talent in the UK Games Industry and nominate your stand outs from this past year in their career or advocating for the disabled community.
A reminder that nominees must be:
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Disabled and/or neurodivergent.
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Be vocal, visible and open about their disability and/or neurodivergency.
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Part the UK games industry in any professional role, either currently or historically.
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Year 2 Impact Cohort
Year 1 Impact Cohort
Impact is an annual initiative to showcase and celebrate 6 disabled and neurodivergent individuals working in the UK games industry.
What is Impact?
An annual long term initiative which showcases and celebrates the talents of 6 disabled and neurodivergent UK-based games industry professionals across various areas, specialisms and levels - who have stood out in their career and are proud advocates of their identity.
Who is part of the Impact community?
We have a growing community as part of Impact in our Many Cats Discord, they include people that are:
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Disabled and/or neurodiverse
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Vocal, visible and open about their disability or neurodiversity
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Working in any games industry role
Check out our handy FAQ for more information on what we mean by disabled and neurodivergent.
Why is it needed?
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21.7% of people in the UK alone have at least one disability
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Disability facts and figures from Scope https://bit.ly/3OST6dn
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Disabled people are 29% less likely to be in employment compared to non-disabled people
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Office of National Statistics - Labour market status of disabled people - https://bit.ly/3AISroN
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Disabled people with severe or specific learning difficulties (26.2%), autism (29.0%), and mental illness or other nervous disorders (30.1%) have employment rates that are lower than disabled people with other impairment types.
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Office of National Statistics - Outcomes for disabled people in the UK: 2021 - http://bit.ly/3Iavqjr
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Only 4% of the UK games Industry consider themselves disabled, alongside 18% identifying as neurodiverse
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UK Games Industry Census 2022 - https://bit.ly/3elCDRa
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Laws alone are not enough, there needs to be societal change, and the games industry has a role it can play in that.
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"Just because discrimination is illegal, doesn't mean it doesn't happen" - GamesIndustry.biz http://bit.ly/3xcIIpA
What do the cohort get?
What do finalists get in Impact
FAQs - document
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