Luke Searle, Learning Designer at University of Southampton talks with Carolina Barnes, Jisc community specialist about making maths accessible. 

Luke was celebrated a community champion of 2025 for being co-chair of the Jisc accessible maths working group. 
Luke shares how the community is helping provide tailored approaches to help make maths more accessible and how this has been achieved through the support and passion of the community. 

You can connect with accessible math JiscMail list https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=ACCESSIBLE-MATHS 

Podcast transcript = https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/10010/1/podcast-six-accessible-math-with-luke-searle-community-champion-2025.docx

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