Inclusive practice

An inclusive environment for learning anticipates the varied requirements of learners and aims to ensure that all students have equal access to educational opportunities (UK Quality Code for HE). There are many resources available around higher education and how inclusive practice should be implemented, as well as studies around the subject, below are some that may be of interest.

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• UK Quality Code for HE - The Quality Code promotes an inclusive approach by embedding considerations of equality and diversity
• Every Researcher Counts: equality and diversity in researcher careers
• HE Academy - Inclusive curriculum design in HE - subject specific considerations - across and within specific subjects
• Developing Inclusive Culture in HE - project funded by the HEA and headed at the University by Dave Allman, Head of Student Enabling Centre
• Liberation, Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum (PDF, file size: 268KB) - NUS (National Union of Students) report on inclusive learning environments (August 2011)
• SCIPS (Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programmes of Study) - covers 21 subjects; search by disability, key skills or subject
• Accessible Events: A Good Practice Guide for Staff Organising Events in HE (PDF, file size: 138.18KB) (JISC TechDis)

Inclusive Assessment

• Assessment Principles, Policy and Procedures

Inclusive Curriculum: Subject Specific Resources

Sciences

• Geography Discipline Network: Inclusive Curriculum Network

• STEM Disability - providing support for disabled students and teaching staff in STEM

Arts, Media and Design

• Unseen on Screen: Gay People on Youth TV (Stonewall, 2010)

• Dash – cultivation of space for extraordinary artists – Disability led visual arts organisation

Health

• Exceptional Nurse - an American network committed to inclusion of more people with disabilities in the nursing profession.

• A Disabled Person's Guide to Becoming a Health Professional (Health Professions Council, 2006)

• Good Health and Good Character: Guidance for Approved Educational Institutions (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2010)

• UK Health Professionals with Hearing Loss - Deaf and hard of hearing people working and training in health professions

• Better Health - using evidence to promote race equality in health

Education

• Teachers' Report - Teachers' perspective on homophobic bullying in Britain's primary and secondary schools (Stonewall, 2009)

• School Report- Tackling homophobic bullying in Britain’s primary and secondary schools (Stonewall, 2012)

• Skill video case studies - Featuring disabled teachers in action in the class room

• Rainbow Teaching – Supporting LGBT and inclusive teaching

Law

• Law Society: Diversity and Inclusion Law Society: Lawyers with Disabilities