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I work at a university and recently registered myself with the disability support office.

I have requested a quiet place to work because it's open plan and people around me make too much noise, which makes me stressed. 

My supervisor has spoken to 'relevant people' and they said they can offer me a seat in the student office (no better), or in a completely different building.

Do they really expect me to go and work in another building? Where I'm completely separate from my team / laboratory? Why can't they provide a quiet space to work in the institute where I work? Aren't they obliged to provide that? 

Various people here have already mistreated me, leading to isolation. It just seems really ignorant. 

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  • Universities don't have a lot of desk space in general, so it might be that they genuinely can't find you anywhere else. They can only provide you with a quiet space if they actually have the space, they can't magic up an extra desk if there isn't one. We've recently had a new building, but it still didn't actually add any more capacity, as soon as we'd moved in everything in the department was full again.

    Could you scout out potential places to work for yourself? There might be somewhere you can informally make your working space (for example one of our computer labs is open to anyone for research, and occasionally small groups of undergrads are allowed to work in there, but in practice, another student in my research group has it to himself 90% of the time), or asking round the academics and people in your building might give you some ideas where there is desk space free. The 'relevant people' might only know is free on paper, whilst in practical terms there might actually be other spare desks that people don't use, or people who might be willing to swap if only you ask.

    Failing that, is there anything else that might work to make your working environment more tolerable? Noise cancelling headphones? Could they set up some barriers so you've got a little cubicle round your desk? Move your desk to at least another part of the room?

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  • Universities don't have a lot of desk space in general, so it might be that they genuinely can't find you anywhere else. They can only provide you with a quiet space if they actually have the space, they can't magic up an extra desk if there isn't one. We've recently had a new building, but it still didn't actually add any more capacity, as soon as we'd moved in everything in the department was full again.

    Could you scout out potential places to work for yourself? There might be somewhere you can informally make your working space (for example one of our computer labs is open to anyone for research, and occasionally small groups of undergrads are allowed to work in there, but in practice, another student in my research group has it to himself 90% of the time), or asking round the academics and people in your building might give you some ideas where there is desk space free. The 'relevant people' might only know is free on paper, whilst in practical terms there might actually be other spare desks that people don't use, or people who might be willing to swap if only you ask.

    Failing that, is there anything else that might work to make your working environment more tolerable? Noise cancelling headphones? Could they set up some barriers so you've got a little cubicle round your desk? Move your desk to at least another part of the room?

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