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Events taking place during the week

 UPDATE:  Recordings available!

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Student panel event on the experience of neurodivergent students in Higher Education

Monday 13 March, 12-1pm (online)

Neurodivergent students from the 樱花动漫 will join in a panel-like discussion to discuss their own experience of Higher Education and how existing barriers and systemic biases may affect engagement, well-being and access.

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Let鈥檚 Talk About: Neurodiversity in Educational and Clinical Settings

(Please note that this event is open to members of the 樱花动漫 HLS faculty only)

Tuesday 14 March, 12-1pm (online)

In the 13^th session of the Let鈥檚 Talk About Series, Dr Rachael Major will give a presentation followed by a discussion on the topic of neurodiversity, aimed at raising awareness and recognition of the challenges but also the strengths associated with neurodiversity.  For more information, please contact Dr Musarrat Maisha Reza m.reza@exeter.ac.uk

The session will include a chance to discuss how to support neurodivergent students both in theory and practice settings, and the option to ask questions anonymously. As always, the sessions are a learning space where we try and meet one another with respect, assume good faith in our questions, and learn together.   Dr Rachael Major (she/her) is Registered Nurse and a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Health and Social Care Studies where she is the programme lead for Post graduate Programmes and Academic Lead and the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Lead. The latter role includes supporting students at all levels who are neurodivergent through screening, study skills and reasonable adjustments. Rachael chaired the Royal College of Nursing steering group to develop guidance and resources about neurodiversity for employers, staff, students and managers. Rachael鈥檚 doctoral research investigated the lived experiences of dyslexic nurses and subsequently she has widened her research to include ADHD, autism, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia.

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Meeting ID: 393 660 330 784
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Keynote presentation: Dr Damian Milton - 'Neurodiversity, Normalisation and Acceptance'

Wednesday 15 March, 12.30-1.30 (online)

, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent, will discuss the history of two opposing narratives, that of 'neurodiversity' and of 'normalisation'. It will be shown how many practices and support strategies used today are framed within a historical framework of the latter and considers what such practices could look like when informed by the former.

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Neurodiversity Research Showcase

Wednesday 15 March, 1.30-3.00 (online)

Find out more about some of the research on neurodiversity being undertaken across the university.  Research to be presented includes a study challenging stereotypes on friendships in children with language disorders, a pilot of software designed to facilitate personalised learning, and a participatory study on autistic, trans students finding belonging in higher education.

Researchers:

Dr. Lenka Janik Blaskova from the 樱花动漫 will present their work on friendship interactions in children with language disorders

Dr. Julie Pepper from the 樱花动漫 will present their work on the"Cognisant of Cognassist" project

Rachel Griffiths from the 樱花动漫 will present their work on Autistic, trans* belonging in higher education

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Dr Edward Mills: 鈥淭he autistic Middle Ages? Neurodivergence and the medieval world鈥�

Thursday 16 March, 5.30-6.30pm (online & Forum, Seminar Rm 5)

Join , autistic lecturer in Medieval Studies, for a talk about medieval figures such as the Arthurian knight Percival, and the connections between 鈥榤odern鈥� ideas of neurodivergence and the medieval world.

The terms 鈥榥eurodivergence鈥� and 鈥楳iddle Ages鈥� certainly don鈥檛 appear together on many bingo cards. Even talking about 鈥榤edieval autism鈥� or 鈥榩remodern ADHD鈥� is inherently anachronistic, and runs the risk of making assumptions about the past 鈥� and the people who inhabited it 鈥� that misrepresent and distort history. Why, then, have historians presented assessments of figures such as Hildegard of Bingen, or the Arthurian knight Percival, as 鈥榓utistic鈥�? What鈥檚 the point of making comparisons between the medieval concept of tristitia and ADHD?  This talk 鈥� by an autistic lecturer in Medieval Studies 鈥� will offer answers to some of these questions, showcasing how (and, importantly, why) a topic that is seemingly so disconnected from 鈥榤odern鈥� ideas of neurodivergence has come to draw so heavily on neurodivergence. No knowledge of medieval studies (or neurodivergence) is required.

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Conversion Therapy and Neurodiversity: Where's the Line?

Friday 17 March, 1-3pm (online)

Join  for a talk about conversion therapy and the intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and disability and how the lines that separate marginalised communities have greater negative consequences for all.

Conversion therapy. It's still not banned in the UK, despite a ban being announced as part of Theresa May's agenda around the 2017 election. Still, no such ban is in effect. Despite several attempts at stripping or even killing the ban, the government now assures us that this new draft ban will "protect all LGBT" people. Will they? We'll have to see. One group, though, will not be protected; neurodivergent people. Despite the vast majority of our community being LGBTQIA+, we continue to face conversion therapy when we interact with any services purportedly set up to support us. How can we challenge this?  Conversion Therapy and Neurodiversity: Where's the Line? talk will unpack the limitations of legislation, the intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and disability and how the lines that separate marginalised communities have greater negative consequences for all.

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