York Disability Rights Forum Annual General Meeting 2026

2.00-4.30pm, Thursday 25th June

Welcome to this year’s AGM, thank you so much for joining us.

Below is information on what to expect during the meeting.

You may have noticed that it’s very hot! Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to help you feel comfortable.

2.15 to 3.00pm

(AGM agenda – the business part)

  1. Welcome and Apologies 
  2. Minutes from the 2025 AGM
  3. Chair’s Annual Report and verbal reports from our subgroups
  4. Treasurer’s Report
  5. Election of Steering Group members
  6. Nomination and Election of Officers:
  • Chair/Co Chairs
  • Vice Chair
  • Treasurer
  • Secretary
  1. Amendment to our Constitution
  2. Appointment of Auditors (if required)
  3. General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
  4.  Any Other Business
  5. Date and Venue of next AGM

3.00 to 3.45pm

Guest speaker and discussion

Anna Bramwell-Dicks, University of York, will tell us about her work on the role of new technology, media and music in improving access, health and wellbeing.

About Anna

Anna has a long-standing interest in the role of new technologies, media and music in improving access, health and wellbeing.  Anna started out by doing an undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems and became so fascinated by User-Centred Design and Psychology that she ended up doing a PhD focussing on the effect of music on transcription typing performance and experience. Anna has since done lots of work on accessibility and disability representation focused projects, including ‘Playable Bodies: Disability Representation in Immersive Media and Video Games’ and ‘SoundCeption: Multimodal Sensory Substitution’ (she’ll explain what this means!).  Anna is the Subject Head of Creative Technologies & Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York and is Chair of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Group 13.3 on Human-Computer Interaction, Disability and Aging.

3.45 to 4.30pm

A relaxed opportunity to chat, get to know each other and connect with other members, allies and supporters of YDRF.

Other AGM information:

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