Neurodiversity Toolkit and Creating Inclusive Departments
Peer Mentoring
- Is your Peer mentoring Support inclusive? Why not Include an option for disabled students to mentor disabled students?
- check out the dean of students mentoring support
- include links to Enable Peer Support on your student webpages
- embed UCAS advice on transitioning to university.
Departmental Representation (student/staff led)
- Equitea Cafe - Physics
- SSLCs & EDI representatives
- Law Society: Disability and Employability event.
See Awareness and celebration suggestions
Students' lived experiences and advice on raising awareness and challenging misperceptions about neurodiversity.
The animated video above describes the experiences of neurodivergent students' advice to departments. Student quotes are from the WIHEA-funded project on the academic experiences of neurodivergent experiences (click here for report) and the animation is prepared by Undergraduate Research Assistant Robyn Ellison. Student societies
Exemplar: Academic Departmental Contact (interview conducted first yr psychology student Inchara Athreya)
Widening Participation Student Network
Promote the Widening Participation Student Network which aims to provide current students from widening participation (WP) backgrounds, (undergraduate or postgraduate) Students can meet peers, share experiences, find out about opportunities that are available to them and gain insight into a wide variety of topics. Click here to visit the network pageLink opens in a new window
Community Values programme
Engage students and staff with activities and training within this programme. Some of the activities are great for welcome week - click here to visit
Advice from students about improving communication in the department
Student quotes are from the WIHEA-funded project on the academic experiences of neurodivergent experiences (click here for report) and the animation is prepared by Undergraduate Research Assistant Robyn Ellison. Click here to view comic strip in CANVA for better resolutionLink opens in a new window
Staff Training & Resources
Slides for Teaching away day
Case Studies
How inclusive is your department checklist
Ableism in academia free e-book to download- click hereLink opens in a new window
Check your language bias: Inclusive language - you govLink opens in a new window
See university disability initiatives click here
Check out the inclusive education model - click here
Check out inclusive education resources - click here