Challenges (Steph)	Mitigation/recommendations	Advantages
Transition to sudden home working leading to very high stress levels	Make home working more normalised and so the transition wouldn’t be as severe
Sudden transition to digital learning leading to intense pressure to learn new skills quickly and uncertainty that those skills would be valuable as the information would change rapidly	Introduction of digital learning as standard would force digital skill improvements for staff at a more manageable rate.
Release of public health guidelines which suggests some disabled lives would not be considered for treatment purely due to ‘frailty’	Include more disabled people at the table when discussing and developing such plans
Distinction between ‘work’ and ‘home’ becoming blurred	Setting yourself strict boundaries for when you work and how accessible you are to your workplace/colleagues
Not all students have the equipment and infrastructure for online learning	Funding for students to buy or rent this equipment and have their internet connections upgraded. Alongside this, training into how to make sessions as inclusive as possible (for example which programs and platforms to use that enable the most devices to access the sessions)
		Reduction of additional labour in terms of having to coordinate my support needs in the workplace.
		Ability to tailor my working day to accommodate a better work/life balance taking into account impairment effects such as pain and fatigue
		Experiencing less pain and fatigue due to not having to commute to work
		More frequent, optional, online meetings provide a sense of support but reduce the physical problems of having to be in a room on campus
Challenges (Chris)	Mitigation/Recommendations	Advantages
Disruption of expectation around diagnostic process for Autism leading to anxiety	Focusing on the relief that this process was still going ahead in some form, in spite of the change
Additional sensitivity resulting from home working in family environment	Use of noise cancelling headphones Making a separate ‘office’ space for work at home Making university work space available later, following lockdown, for staff who needed it was useful
Overwhelm and anxiety around unexpected change arising from pandemic	Establishing new routines gradually improved anxieties
The redundancy of previously negotiated workplace accommodations	New rules established with work and family
The association of particular tasks with locations	Re-establishing associations over time - becoming familiar with my home ‘office’ space as a place of work, buying a pinboard for key visual information.
Lack of transition arising from removal of commute leading to anxiety	Establishing time a space boundaries around work and home life Establishing a routine of daily running
Anxiety arising from abrupt loss of routine	The negotiation of new rules and routines with family - setting spatial and temporal boundaries around work - improved over time
Increase in volume of email correspondence from students	Unavoidable in itself at this time, but reduced over time and sharing some of the challenges I faced helped to strengthen relationships with students over this time
The need for online communication and the challenge of video calls	Communicated challenge around this to line manager - many meetings were made ‘optional’ and I was able to catch up via minutes Communicating to colleagues my need for notice before receiving a call Suggesting alternative forms of communication eg. email
		Exemption from social contexts leads to less emotionally tiring hypervigilance and reduction in migraines
		More opportunities to physically ‘be myself’ eg. using stimming and other methods of calming down
		Less physical discomfort as able to wear even more comfortable clothes than in office
		Some challenging organisational tasks no longer necessary - eg. daily packing of bag for work
		Choices are restricted and therefore simplified leading to less overwhelm
		Non-synchronous (pre-recorded) session avoid the challenging social aspects of the standard lecturing environment