My Career Journey Event:
Disability is Everyone’s Business

Disability History Month / My Career Journey Event: Disability is Everyone’s Business

Thursday 8 December | 4pm - 5.30pm

Following on from the success of the My Career Journey series last year, this session has a specific focus on disability. It has been developed to support all staff within the university and beyond to better understand how to be an ally for, support and lead disabled staff and how to support the career progression and development of disabled staff, who are often under-represented (particularly females) in leadership roles within HE. Everyone is invited, because disability needs to matter to everyone.

• 4.00pm - 4.45pm

  Thrive into Work - Do you have a health condition (including: Hearing impairment, Communication impairment, Visual impairment, Physical impairment, Autism) and would like support to find, retain and progress your employment? Join this session and learn how the Thrive into work can help you and provide one to one support to suit your needs and employment goals.

• 4.45pm - 5.30pm

  Disability is Everyone’s Business: Allyship & Leadership – Panel discussion. Speakers will share their own career journeys and offer top tips and advice for allyship, personal development and career progression. The session will conclude with a developmental challenge to encourage you to put learning into action and take a positive step towards your career goals

Disability History Month 2021

 / Mike Layward: We are Invisible, We are Visible / Family Planning: The Lived Experience Through Art - Panel Discussion / Paul Darke: Why Bother? The Art of Disability - Practice Does Not Make the Perfect (Disrupting Bodies) / Sam Rapp: UN International Day for Disabled People / Deb Alma: Poetry on Prescription: Creative Writing & Wellbeing /Jennifer Gilbert: How a Manchester Gallery Supports Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists Tony Heaton: The Art of Disability History; A personal view through NDACA (the national disability arts collection and archive)