Advice and guidance for hosting inclusive university events
Thinking of hosting and organising your own online or face-to-face university events? We share some of our guidelines and advice developed through the WAARC project
Accessibility guide for inclusive university events
Easy read accessibility guide
A conversation about access
Inclusion and Sharing Best Practice for Academic Events Facilitation: WAARC Reflections on the ‘Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions / Intersections / Contradictions’ Conference at
Background note: Devising guidelines and other creative and dialogical mediums for reflecting on and developing accessible events. We will work towards normalising accessible events. This includes resources co-produced with Speak-up Self Advocacy on Accessible Events. This builds upon the work led by our WAARC colleague Dr Antonios Ktenidis on the experiences of minoritised groups at research conferences. This was supported by colleagues at the Centre for Equity and Inclusion. We build upon this work on accessibility guides and recommendations and do so with disabled researchers and project partners. This can include information and training resources provided to event organisers at the University. Our overarching goal is to ensure that access is embedded, rather than treating access as an afterthought or as a response. This prioritises accessibility as core to event organising, and not an ‘additional need’ to be met. We will conduct creative workshops with the TUOS research community in order to develop conversations and emerging considerations around accessible academic events.
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