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With more elections coming up and racial inequality still rife in the UK and worldwide, this begs the question of what can be done to create a fairer society. We have resources that directly address these social issues, from checklists and bite-sized explorations of white privilege to reports recommending authoritative evidence-based interventions. Here are some highly readable resources to help you explore the causes and counters to racial injustice in the UK.
Originally posted 26th May 2023 Greta and Patrick from the University Library and Megan and Soo, two students from BA(Hons) Illustration, enjoyed a day at Cottage Grove Primary School. The school was celebrating diversity and on this, the second of …
The last of the really common neurodiverse conditions I want to introduce you to this Neurodiversity Awareness Week , I’m going to conclude with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD.
What is different about people who we describe as being “austistic”? Well, it’s complicated and, as with dementia, no two autistic people are the same, although there are five general traits they share in common that help characterise this form of neurodiversity.
Continuing on from my last two posts for Neurodiversity Awareness Week, I wanted to introduce you to the most common presentations of neurodiversity: the four ‘D’s: dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and dyspraxia.
he architecture of oppression is old and runs deep in our society. Even the buildings we work in are often designed in ways that disturb neurodiverse people.
In my last blog post, I began to explore why neurodivergent people are so much less likely to be employed than neurotypical people. In this post, I’m going to explore why this might be.
Happy Neurodiversity Awareness Week! This week, we celebrate the rich diversity of humankind and the often very different ways we approach similar challenges.
We are always looking for new ways to make learning more fun and interesting. To that end, one of our resident sci-fi enthusiasts has pulled together a reading list of science fiction books we have in stock that were all written by People of the Global Majority.
