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Presentation
In this session Harriet Cannon (Disability Advisory Team Manager, University of Leeds) discusses how models of disability have shaped disabled student support, and what updating our thinking about disability means for disability services. We’ll look at how the University of Leeds responds to disabled students, and how it has updated and modified its approach to evidence and access to support. We’ll also look at how inclusive practice can be used as a tool to reimagine the disabled student experience, as well as reducing the institutional burden of the current ‘industry of adjustments’.
Harriet has been working with disabled students in higher education for 25 years. She has worked in Disability Services at the University of Leeds since 2007, first as a Disability Coordinator, and now as the Disability Team Manager, having previously led on disability support for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Harriet is a Director of the National Association of Disability Practitioners, as well as a Senior Accredited Member. She sits on the Office of the Independent Adjudicator’s Disability Experts Panel, the Advance HE Disabled Student Commitment Partnership Group, the Department for Education’s Higher Education Autism Advisory Group, and she founded the Association of Autism Practitioners in Higher Education. Harriet has a particular interest in inclusive pedagogies, inclusive assessment, and competence standards.
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https://students.leeds.ac.uk/disabledstudents
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@HarrietCannon