John Harding

Head of the Inclusive Education Hub, Education Services, University of Cambridge

Dr John Harding has been Head of the Accessibility & Disability Resource Centre (ADRC) at the University of Cambridge since 2008. The ADRC is Cambridge’s service for disabled students and those staff working with disabled students. John is the Secretary of the University’s Accessibility Committee and a trustee of two small charities who make grants to disabled students. John is also a Senior Accredited Member and Company Secretary of the UK’s National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP) as well as an Adviser to the Board and Reviewing Panel Chair on the NADP accreditation scheme and UK representative for the LINK Network. John served on the UK’s Office for Students Disability in Higher Education Expert Panel from 2024 to 2026. He is currently on a 2-year secondment managing the University’s Pathways to Inclusive Practice Programme.

John has worked as a practitioner and managed teams of specialists in the field of disability support and inclusive practice in both further and higher education for over twenty years. During that time, he has worked on the development more inclusive and supportive policies in relation to disabled students, including the promotion of Universal Design for Learning and inclusive pedagogical design and practices. John holds a PGCE in adult literacy, a masters in international development, the postgraduate diploma in teaching and assessing specific learning difficulties and completed his doctorate in inclusive education at the University of Cambridge.