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Inclusive-Learning@York events

The Inclusive-Learning team is pleased to be involved in a range of events with the University of York community over the course of the academic year. This page highlights some of these events and their outcomes.

2021/22 academic year:

'Disability History Month' panel events

'Disability History Month' student and staff discussion events

‘Invisible disabilities’

Throughout this event 5 student panellists discussed a number of questions exploring their lived experiences within higher education and more widely. The discussion followed some central themes including how invisible disabilities are represented in conversations about disability, varying feelings of acceptance and isolation within both the disability and non-disabled community, and the role that Universities have to play in supporting their invisibly disabled students.

'Disability, sex and relationships'

In this event 4 student panellists shared their own experiences around navigating spaces of sex and relationships as a disabled woman. The discussion focused on themes of disability and sexuality and navigating relationships and dating with disability.

‘Disability within higher education’

The conclusive discussion invited both student and staff panellists from the university to explore themes and ideas from the previous events alongside looking at some more specific issues of inclusion and accessibility within learning and teaching at university.

'LGBT+ Inclusion and Belonging' discussion event

'LGBT+ inclusion and belonging in higher education' discussion event 

This event, co-ordinated by the Inclusive-Learning team at the University of York,
was designed as a space for both student and staff members of the UoY LGBTQ+
community and allies to discuss issues of inclusion and belonging in higher
education. Opening with a series of mini-presentations from students and staff from
the university, attendees then divided into a series of breakout rooms looking at the
following discussion points: seeing yourself in the curriculum, inclusive language and pedagogy and sense of belonging and community.

'Gendered curriculums' discussion event

'Gendered curriculums and experiences at York' discussion event

This discussion event was organised by Inclusive-Learning in collaboration with academics from across the university and the York University Students’ Union (YUSU) Women’s and Non-binary Officer. The event was aimed to bring together discussions about gender inclusion in learning and teaching at York, with a particular focus on gender diversity in the curriculum.