I've been catching up on my 'to be read' pile and have been reading Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia. It's a book about ableism as experienced by disabled academics, as apposed to students. But the insights regarding the mitigation of unintentionally ableist institutional practices are still useful to me in my work.
I also attended an OU event on supporting neurodiversity last week. One of the talks was regarding a recent project investigating the transition of neurodivergent students from Access courses to level one courses (Exploring the Transitions of Neurodivergent Access Students to Level One Study: Narratives of Study Skills and Support | International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions (dundee.ac.uk)). The paper mentions plans for future study - much needed for a variety of reasons, but not least because this project was only able to include one STEM student. It transpires I happen to know someone involved in launching the bigger project and have let it be known that I would be interested in taking part. However, nothing may come of it. Funding constraints, yadda, yadda. So we'll see.
Summer holidays 8: Neurodiversity
I've been catching up on my 'to be read' pile and have been reading Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia. It's a book about ableism as experienced by disabled academics, as apposed to students. But the insights regarding the mitigation of unintentionally ableist institutional practices are still useful to me in my work.
I also attended an OU event on supporting neurodiversity last week. One of the talks was regarding a recent project investigating the transition of neurodivergent students from Access courses to level one courses (Exploring the Transitions of Neurodivergent Access Students to Level One Study: Narratives of Study Skills and Support | International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions (dundee.ac.uk)). The paper mentions plans for future study - much needed for a variety of reasons, but not least because this project was only able to include one STEM student. It transpires I happen to know someone involved in launching the bigger project and have let it be known that I would be interested in taking part. However, nothing may come of it. Funding constraints, yadda, yadda. So we'll see.