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Universities
(Higher Education)

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Universities- these masterclasses and workshops are just for you, designed for UG, PG and Doctoral Researchers, expertly delivered by an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). These modules provide a rigorous lens to help students and researchers understand institutional barriers, engage in reflective practice, and disrupt systemic disadvantage. The specialised sessions below equip your academic community with the robust intersectional frameworks needed to foster true equity.

Intersectional Identities in SEND

🕒 Duration: 1 Day Intensive

What You Will Take Away:

  • Explore overlapping identities

  • Unpack diverse lived experiences

  • Improve educational outcomes

Strategic Intersectional Workshop

🕒 Duration: 1 Day Intensive

What You Will Take Away:

  • Deconstruct institutional barriers

  • Promote equitable access

  • Implement intersectional frameworks

Empowering Black Autistic Learners

🕒 Duration: 1 Day Intensive

What You Will Take Away:

  • Recognise structural attainment barriers

  • Optimize educational access

  • Implement empowering frameworks

Workshop: Our Autistic Lives

🕒 Duration: 2-Hour Focus Session

What You Will Take Away:

  • Integrate research and human realities

  • Unpack intersectional family life

  • Nurture neuroaffirming reflection

MA Education Student

"I will be more aware of intersectionality during my placement now- it is so important"

Cultural Responsiveness and Neurodiversity

🕒 Duration: 1-Day Intensive 

What You Will Take Away:

  • Disrupt structural assessment bias

  • Drive student attainment

  • Embed culturally responsive support

Intersectionality - In Practice

🕒 Duration: 1-Day Intensive

What You Will Take Away:

  • Interrupt real-time classroom biases

  • Audit learning environments

  • Diversify enrichment activities

Reframing Autism 

What You Will Take Away:

  • Reframe neurodivergent differences

  • Adapt learning environments

  • Celebrate neuroaffirming growth

🕒 Duration: 1 Day Intensive

Bespoke & Organisation-Wide

🕒 Duration: Tailored to Your Schedule

What You Will Take Away:

  • Reframe neurodivergent differences

  • Adapt learning environments

  • Celebrate neuroaffirming growth

...students were really interested in what you had to say and they really responded well to the way you were able to weave together lived experience, practice, research and theoretical ideas

Senior Lecturer, Social Work

"Donna-Marie makes hard topics, engaging, she makes the learning  interesting and inspiring. "

BA Education Student 

"Her expertise and enthusiasm for the subjects she taught were evident, and her engaging delivery style captivated and inspired students"

Lecturer, BA Education

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