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Towards Equitable Learning Spaces?

08 June 2022, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Image from the LEEDIC project showing a series of blue, red and white booklets on a wooden surface. The first booklet shows a hand holding a magnifying glass on the writing 'looking different'

This third talk of the 'Disability and the Cultural Sector' seminar series, 'Towards Equitable Learning Spaces? Exploring critical, creative and speculative methods for changing ableist educational practices' will be given by Dr Jos Boys.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Cost

Free

Organiser

Dr Rafie Cecilia

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This third talk of the 'Disability and the Cultural Sector' seminar series will be given by Dr Jos Boys, who will explore critical, creative and speculative methods for changing ableist educational practices.

This seminar will take place on Zoom (https://ucl.zoom.us/j/99964278855), and there is no need to register in advance. Live Captioning for the event will be provided by Stagetext.  

The UCL Institute of Advanced Studies is pleased to host this series of informal short seminars to showcase research around disability and the cultural sector.

The programme began in May 2022 with lunchtime talks of 45 minutes. This series aims to connect researchers and provide a safe space to discuss ideas and progress. Speakers include eminent scholars from UCL and other research institutions, including Dr Simon Hayhoe (University of Bath), Prof. Hannah Thompson (RHUL), Prof. Tim Adlan (UCL), Dr Jos Boys (UCL), and Prof Diane Carr (UCL).

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The seminar series is sponsored by the IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund and is organised by Dr Rafie Cecilia (UCL Institute of Archaeology and Centre for Critical Heritage Studies) together with the Global Disability Innovation Hub.
 

About the Speaker

Jos Boys

Programme Lead, MSc in Learning Environments, and Director, Learning Environments Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre (LEEDIC) at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL

Dr Jos Boys
Dr. Jos Boys is Programme Lead for the MSc in Learning Environments, and Director of the Learning Environments Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre (LEEDIC) at The Bartlett UCL, with a research focus on creative and inclusive educational spaces both within and beyond the academy. She has worked for over 20 years as a consultant and researcher in learning spaces in higher education, both in the UK and internationally, and has published extensively. She is also co-founder, with Zoe Partington, of The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, a platform which has bringing together disabled artists and built environment students, educators and practitioners since 2008 for creative and positive actions and dialogue that can demonstrate how disability is a valuable and generative force in design, rather than a technical and legalistic ‘problem’.  She is author of Doing Disability Differently: an alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability, and designing for everyday life (Routledge 2014) and editor of Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader (Routledge 2017.) 

LEEDIC 
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/research/virtual-research-centres/learning-environments-equality-diversity-and-inclusion-centre 

The DisOrdinary Architecture Project 
https://disordinaryarchitecture.co.uk/ 

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