UCU St Andrews - Disability Equality in Education by https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu This page includes resources from our branch event for the UCU Day of Action for Disability Equality in Education on Nov 24, 2021. We are continuing to use this padlet during the Teach Out on Dec 3, 2021 to note ideas for making our union branch and our university more accessible, including actions we may take to get us there. en-us 2021-11-18 09:48:22 UTC 2024-11-19 10:24:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Ableism in Academia keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1899132636 "Ableism in Academia provides an interdisciplinary outlook on ableism that is currently missing. Through reporting research data and exploring personal experiences, the contributors theorise and conceptualise what it means to be/work outside the stereotypical norm."

This e-Book is free to download. Read a chapter today and/or add it to your ongoing reading list!]]> 2021-11-18 09:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1899132636 Academic Ableism keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1910225956 "Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center."

This e-book is open access. Download a chapter today and/or add it to your ongoing book list!]]> 2021-11-24 09:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1910225956 Disability and Academic Careers, Sang et al. 2021 keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1910236658 Abstract: Disabled people continue to face a variety of significant barriers to full participation and inclusion in work and employment. However, their experiences remain only sparsely discussed in relation to human resource management (HRM) practices and employment contexts. The current study contributes to this gap in understanding by drawing together relevant work connecting HRM practices, diversity management and disability studies to examine the experiences of a sample of 75 disabled academics in the UK. Through the social relational model of disability, HRM practices socially construct disability in the workplace. Interview and email data from disabled academics in the UK are drawn upon to illustrate how organisational practices and policies, while intended to ‘accommodate’ disabled people, inadvertently construct and shape disability for people with impairments or chronic health conditions.]]> 2021-11-24 09:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1910236658 UCU Webinar: Everday ableism keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1910247023 Ableism is discrimination in favour of non-disabled people. It is based on an assumption that the physical, cognitive and sensory differences with which disabled people live with are deficits, and it is rooted in the medical model of disability that assumes that disabled people need to be 'fixed'. It is manifest in physical, environmental and attitudinal barriers that exclude and stigmatise an entire group of people as 'less than'.

This webinar explored what ableism is, recognising it, and how to challenge it. 
]]> 2021-11-24 09:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1910247023 UCU Video: Social model of disability keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1910249731 UCU follows the social model of disability which looks at the ways in which society is organised and the social and institutional barriers which restrict disabled people's opportunities.

The social model sees the person first and argues that the barriers they face, in combination with their impairments, are what disables them.

Barriers, including attitudes and perceptions around disabilities can make it impossible or very difficult for disabled people to access jobs, buildings or services. Removing these barriers is the best way to include millions of disabled people in our society.

Watch our film on the social model of disability and discuss how branches can adopt the social model.
]]> 2021-11-24 09:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1910249731 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1912701220 2021-11-25 14:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1912701220 Build a resource on how to have more accessible meetings keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927435754 Adopt 'universal design' principles for our meetings, and provide guidance for that. Make this guidance (and related resources) publicly available through our website for other groups in St Andrews.]]> 2021-12-03 14:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927435754 Staff Disability Policy keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927446941 Publish the staff disability policy]]> 2021-12-03 14:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927446941 Accessible and gender neutral bathrooms keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927480897 Need more bathrooms around university that are accessible to disabled and LGBTQIA+ staff and students]]> 2021-12-03 14:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927480897 Admission & Recruitment (staff and student) keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927488674 Admission/Recruitment and Retention of disabled staff and students]]> 2021-12-03 14:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927488674 Website and communications keg4 https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927491717 Update our website; check and fix website accessibility; consider accessibility of our communications more broadly (through email and social media)]]> 2021-12-03 14:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/keg4/wuh9ue84uxh4qjiu/wish/1927491717