NUSU are holding an Inclusive Sport Week campaign for NU staff and students. This is to promote disability and inclusive sport on campus and celebrate that sport is for everyone! Through the week there will be: Casual sport sessions taking place in Boccia, Goalball, Sitting Volleyball and Visually Impaired Cricket. Sessions from the Activity Alliance to teach […]
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Join us for an engaging and entertaining talk with Q & A by Francesca Martinez as part of the NU DIG celebration of diversity for International Day of People with Disabilities. Francesca is a wobbly comedian, writer, speaker and activist (she has mild cerebral palsy, but much prefers the word ‘wobbly’). She has guested on Channel 4 News, BBC2’s Newsnight, BBC1’s […]
World mental health day is on the 10th October 2019. Campus activities are being co-ordinated by OHSS for the whole week. DIG chair Dr Becca Wilson will be delivering coffee break talk at about the work DIG has been doing to develop and promote a disability inclusive culture at the University. 8th October, King’s Gate […]
Better EDI Allies
DIG Chair Dr Becca Wilson and HaSS EDI Officer Kelechi Dibbie were recently invited as panel speakers at the British Science Association and BIG STEM Communicators Network workshop “What can we do to be better equality, diversity and inclusion allies?” held 17th July 2019 in Edinburgh.