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Empowering Disability Inclusion in Publishing Industry

This article by Simon Holt highlights the importance of disability inclusion in the publishing industry, emphasizing the benefits of diverse teams and strategies for creating an inclusive workplace. It sheds light on the significant percentage of the global population with disabilities and the lower employment rate among them. The text provides insights on what Elsevier and other companies can do to empower change and promote inclusivity. By making simple yet impactful efforts such as using inclusive language, implementing assistive technology, offering flexible working arrangements, and providing unconscious bias training, organizations can tap into an untapped candidate pool, improve problem-solving skills, and better serve their customers. Ultimately, it emphasizes that by taking small steps collectively, a big change towards inclusivity can be achieved.

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Empowering Disability Inclusion in Publishing Industry

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  1. Disability Inclusion in the Publishing Industry Simon Holt Senior Acq. Editor, Elsevier Chair, Elsevier Enabled Scholarly Kitchen Cabinet SSP Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee ALPSP Annual Meeting, 2019 The Problem Solvers You Don’t Know About Yet

  2. Disability: Not Just about Wheelchairs • Equality Act 2010 classes you as having a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative impact on your ability to do normal daily activities. • 15% of the world’s population has some type of disability. • Only 5.4% identified as having a disability in a recent Publishers Association survey • Employment rate is 30% lower than the rest of the population in both the UK and US. Source: House of Commons Library, May 2019

  3. Why is this Important? Beyond ‘doing the right thing’ • Diverse Teams Perform Better: Different Perspectives, Different Expertise • Competitive Advantage • Skills that will help your business • Adaptability • Problem Solving • Resilience • Building Relationships • Contribution to your company • Untapped Candidate Pool • Better Reflects our Customers: we are the gatekeepers

  4. What is Elsevier doing?

  5. ‘That’s all Great. But What About Your Employees?’Making it Happen

  6. ‘It’s Alright for You. You’re a Big Company.’ Empowering Change for Everyone • Not about £ or $ (conversations are free) / not a competitive sport. Only takes one person to spark change. • Publishing Industry Disability Forum: • LinkedIn: ‘DisAbility in Publishing’ e: s.holt.1@elsevier.com • Things to consider at your company: • Language in your job advertisements; where you advertise • EvenBreak; DisabilityJobSite; Recruit Disability; AbilityJobs • Ask open-ended q’s: ‘How would you approach x task?’ • Use Assistive Technology – apps (cheap) or Access to Work • Flexible Working; Health & Wellbeing (benefits everyone) • Unconscious Bias Training – free options: WISE; iHasco • Work with the experts – e.g.: Disability Rights UK; Scope; Leonard Cheshire • Disability Confident Accreditation – free UK govt scheme • Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Publishing (free to sign up): https://c4disc.org/ • We are all responsible for creating an inclusive culture; if everyone does something small, we can make a big change.

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