For this years Celebrate Difference and Diversity event we organised and ran a photo competition entitled ‘What Diversity Means to Me’.
We received 11 excellent entries, all very different and meaningful.
The winner was entry 11 from Sally Gill in the Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Humanities.
Please click here to see all the entries, well done to Sally and thank you to everyone who took the time to take part.
The first national conference of the UK’s disabled workforce is being arranged by the Univesity of Manchester’s Disabled Staff Network. The conference will take place on 6 June 2014 and is entitled ‘What are we Hiding?’
To find out more about the conference go to their website
Scope’s latest campaign is entitled ‘End the Awkard’ aimed at reducing the awkwardness some people feel around disabled people. Find out more about the campaign on the Scope website.
Portugal’s Helena Costa is to be the highest-profile female manager of a European men’s team after being named head coach of Clermont Foot in France.
Costa, a former scout for Scottish Premiership side Celtic, has coached the Iran women’s team since 2012.
The 36-year-old, who has also coached Benfica’s male youth teams and the Qatar women’s side, will join Clermont at the end of the season.
“It should help the club enter a new era,” said the Ligue 2 club.
Prior to Costa’s appointment, the highest-profile female coach of a men’s team in Europe was Carolina Morace, who took charge of Italian Serie C1 team Viterbese for two matches in 1999. More …
In 1973 BBC Two’s Horizon – which celebrates its 50th birthday this month – made its first documentary about deafness. Some forty years later it serves as a fascinating time capsule of attitudes to deafness at the time.
“In our loquacious society, the deaf are linguistic lepers,” notes the commentary from the Curtain of Silence.
“Rarely can we be bothered to make that little extra effort in talking to them, trying to understand them. We give them the jobs we don’t want. Having struggled into our world of speech, their opportunities are very limited.”
But without teletext subtitling and in-vision signing 40 years ago, deaf audiences had little chance of knowing what was being said about them. More … http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-27219354
The OED defines “disclosure” as the action of making new or secret information known. But for disabled people, it tends to have a more specific usage – one that causes much soul-searching and indecision.
What is disclosure?
It’s never far from a disabled jobseeker’s mind and usually comes to the fore when filling in a job application form. It’s the word used to describe that tricky situation that many people with disabilities will recognise – do I choose to tell a potential employer that I am disabled or not? More … http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-27193964
May is National Walking Month and we have chosen Nina Barough as our Diversity Champion for the work she does as founder of the ‘Walk the Walk’ charity which raises money for and awareness of breast cancer.
Walk the Walk was born when Nina and some friends decided to power walk the 1996 New York marathon dressed in their bras, the idea being to raise some money for breast cancer. Not long after this successful event Nina discovered that she herself had breast cancer. To support her, friends took part in the 1997 London marathon and in 1998 25 walkers claimed their place. However word was spreading and some people who wanted to were unable to take part, so therefore Nina decided to put on a marathon walk especially for them starting the night before the London marathon and so it began! Walk the Walk became a charity in 1998 and the patron is Prince Charles.
There are now several ‘Walk the Walk’ events in Britain the best known being the Moonwalks in London and Edinburgh and the Sunwalks in Bristol, Newcastle and Southampton. There are also events taking place in New York as well.
These days the London Moonwalk has grown into a huge annual event taking place during May, with thousands upon thousands of women and men of all ages taking part walking through the night for an amazing cause. Each year there is a different theme for the event, this year the theme is Rockabilly.
The charity has raised millions of pounds in the last 16 years and so far this year has raised £1,659,312.
If you would like to know more about Nina and Walk the Walk have a look at their website at http://www.walkthewalk.org/Home.