Dr John Harding

Role: Company Secretary and Adviser

A headshot of Dr John Harding, a white man with short dark hair and a grey beard wearing a beige shirt.

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. From March 2026 to March 2008, John will be on secondment as the Head of the Inclusive Education Hub at Cambridge, managing a project to embed inclusive design and practice. John is also a member of the University’s Disabled Staff Network, Secretary of the University’s Accessibility Committee and a trustee of two small charities who make grants to disabled students. John is 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 serving on the Office for Students Disability Panel from 2024-2026, and the Disabled Student Commitment Partnership Group.

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 a doctorate in education from the University of Cambridge.