Working Together to Advance Culture Change in Higher Education
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
13:00-15:00
A joint webinar by NADP and RAISE
Sponsored by Clear Links
Tickets are free to NADP and RAISE members. Non-member tickets are available for £20.
It has been a long time – decades in fact – since HE disability practitioners began discussing how teaching could be more inclusive to enable disabled students reach their potential and be truly valued in Higher Education. As the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA 1995; 2001; 2005) became the Equality Act (EA 2010) the meaning of inclusion began to encompass all ‘protected characteristics’ and inclusive practice and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) became a focus for several different agendas across any given HE provider.
Scan any University website for their aims and objectives or their teaching and learning strategies and the inclusion ‘agenda’ is universally highlighted. Why is it then, that we have not seen the tipping point reached, the culture changes embedded, such that webinar events such as this are no longer necessary?
How can we share our knowledge and expertise to bring these different forces together to achieve our shared aims?
Join NADP board members, RAISE Inclusive Practice Specialist Interest Group members, education developers (SEDA) and EDI specialists, for an engaging webinar attempting to explore how we can join forces and create a step change in progress towards inclusivity.
With presentations from Paddy Turner, Prof Megan Lawton, Helen Childs and Dr Jagjeet Jutley-Neilson.
Agenda
| Time | Section | Presenters |
| 13:00 | Welcome, Introduction | Paddy Turner, Sheffield Hallam University, NADP Director and RAISE Inclusive Practice Convenor |
| 13:05 | Inclusivity and Me | Prof Megan Lawton University of Wolverhampton |
| 13:20 | Embedding Inclusivity During a Whole Curriculum Redesign | Helen Childs University of Kent and OfS Panel Member |
| 13:35 | Neurodiversity Toolkit | Dr Jagjeet Jutley-Neilson Director of Student Experience and Progression, University of Warwick Liam Medlin, PGR Student |
| 13:55 | 10 Minute Break | |
| 14:05 | Working with professional recognition | Paddy Turner, Sheffield Hallam University Inclusive Practice | RAISE (raise-network.com) |
| 14:20 | Q&A panel session | All presenters, joined by NADP board member |
| 15:00 | Thanks and Close | |
Slides
Further Reading
University of Warwick – Neurodiversity Toolkit
University of Warwick – Neurodiversity
RAISE Network | Research | Student Engagement (raise-network.com)
The Disabled Student Commitment | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk)
Access and participation plans – Office for Students
Paul Blackmore, KCL, The excellent and inclusive university: an institutional framework | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk) (published 2018)
Enabling institutional inclusive cultural change through student engagement: key attributes for success | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk) – lead by Kingston University, 2023.
As Paul Blackmore from Kings College London said in an Advance HE project:
‘Inclusiveness refers here to seeking to include appropriately all those who can benefit from a community, provision or activity.’
‘This is an immense area touching on all university activities. However, the focus is not on what a university does to be excellent or inclusive but how these pressures are managed – or not. Some answers may lie in what institutions deliberately do through the work of senior teams but some may be informal, seen in what people do in their daily lives. This project provides a catalyst for institutions to review policy and practices in excellence and inclusion, coming to an informed view about where they currently are and would like to be. By helping to clarify the choices that are made, explicitly or otherwise, it aims to ensure that incentives and motivations to engage in prestige-related practices should not drive out inclusive approaches.’
Blackmore, P. (2018) Kings College London, The excellent and inclusive university: an institutional framework | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk)