Neurodiversity ally and accessibility training (HDR supervisor development)
Event description
UTS values diversity in our community and upholds strategies, policies, and cultural practices that create a welcoming environment for all. Ensuring that our research culture embraces diversity and supports everyone’s needs is critical to UTS’s vision, as well as to the future innovative capacity we are developing through our research training.
Neurodiversity is the idea that there’s natural variation in how people’s brains work and how people experience, understand and interact with the world. This means there are natural differences in the way people learn and communicate, including people with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and other learning disabilities.
Backed by research, this highly interactive workshop provides an immersive experience of Neurodiversity inclusion in a higher education context: it is designed not only to teach about Neurodiversity, but also to exemplify a Neurodiversity accessible learning experience for its participants, who are led by example through Neurodiversity-friendly learning activities. It equips participants to work confidently in Neurodiverse spaces in the future.
The session's topics will include:
- engaging respectfully and ethically with Neurominority cohorts, supporting disclosure, and practicing good allyship
- common problems and solutions that emerge in Neurodiverse working and learning spaces
- real-life case studies or challenges offered by participants, guided by the workshop leader
Due to the highly interactive nature of the workshop, participation in each session is capped at 20 people. We are offering three dates to accommodate demand. If your preferred session is full, you can add your name to the waitlist in case a spot becomes available.
- Thurs, 11 May, 10:30am-12:00pm
- Wed, 24 May, 12:00-1:30pm
- Thurs, 8 June, 3:00-4:30pm
About the facilitator:
This workshop is run by Beth Radulski of Advocate Neurodiversity. Beth is the first openly Autistic Autism researcher at La Trobe University, an award-winning undergraduate lecturer and tutorial leader, and a PhD Candidate at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre and Department of Social Inquiry. She sits on the La Trobe University Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, the ACU Autism Advisory Committee, and is an Advisor for Untapped and its Neurodiversity Hub project.
The Graduate Research School offers a series of workshops and modules to strengthen supervisors’ knowledge, skills and tools in best supervisory practices. For more information about HDR supervisor training requirements and development opportunities, visit the GRS website.