Thank you for joining us for the latest UniSkills Focus On blog. If you are new to our blogs, we publish every last Friday of the month focusing on a different resource that may help with your research and studies at Edge Hill. This month we are exploring a great health resource, Anatomy.TV.
14-18 October. Embrace, Support, Empower: Raising awareness of neurodivergence .
As our event in 2023 was such a success, here we are again, delivering workshops, raising awareness and giving out free squishy brains to Embrace, Support and Empower Neurodivergence and Neurodiversity.
Last year, feedback suggested our event was interesting and enlightening as well as informative, important and insightful in raising awareness and providing information and a great selection of resources.
Last year was also the launch of our toolkits which aimed to empower staff and students to develop knowledge and have conversations regarding differences but most of all, to learn about themselves and others.
Responding to the increases in people exploring neurodivergence, the SpLD team is hosting a collaborative event for staff and students to learn more about. We hope the event will highlight strategies for support and embrace people’s differences.
It has been four years since three UK academic librarians, frustrated by the high prices, poor availability and restrictive licensing models for eBooks, launched the #eBookSOS campaign. You can read more abour our response to this campaign in our 2020 blog eTextbooks: what’s all the fuss about? The campaign published an Open Letter, calling on the UK Government to investigate the unfair pricing and licensing practices of academic publishers. Although the letter attracted over 5,000 signatures from librarians, academics and students, the Education Select Committee declined to investigate, and the issues highlighted in our original blog post have only worsened.
