{"id":10,"date":"2019-07-25T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:50:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-300x300.png\" alt=\"Disability Interest Group logo.\" class=\"wp-image-466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-1200x1200.png 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/files\/2024\/07\/dig-logo-transparent-bg-1980x1980.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Disability Interest Group (DIG) is a staff and student network at Newcastle University. The DIG includes a wider membership who are contacted via mailing list and Teams, and a steering group membership who are invited to attend meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DIG Steering Group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Members are listed in alphabetical order by surname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Co-chairs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/christian.perfect\/\">Christian Lawson-Perfect<\/a><\/strong><br>Senior Learning Software Developer<br>SAgE<br><a href=\"mailto:christian.perfect@newcastle.ac.uk\">christian.perfect@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/medical-sciences\/people\/profile\/damianparry.html\">Dr Damian Parry<\/a><\/strong><br>Lecturer<br>School of Biomedical Sciences<br><a href=\"mailto:damian.parry@ncl.ac.uk\">damian.parry@ncl.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Student interns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We have two student interns providing administrative support:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taz Nasif-Whitestone<\/strong><br><a href=\"mailto:t.a.nasif-whitestone2@newcastle.ac.uk\">t.a.nasif-whitestone2@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Green<\/strong><br><a href=\"mailto:k.green3@newcastle.ac.uk\">k.green3@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Disability Interest Group (DIG) is a staff and student network at Newcastle University. The DIG includes a wider membership who are contacted via mailing list and Teams, and a steering group membership who are invited to attend meetings. DIG Steering Group Members are listed in alphabetical order by surname. Co-chairs Christian Lawson-PerfectSenior Learning Software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7236,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}