Staff development programme
Introduction
A minimum of 9 staff development days, 1 of which will be run as a national conference in November 2004, will be organised. This programme is geared to ensure a specifically targeted take-up of the reference guidelines produced during the project.
A series of staff development outlines to be developed will assist senior staff, human resource officers and disability officers to determine how to focus staff development at the veterinary schools. The project will also result in staff development material for disability officers.
Staff involved in programme
The Director of DIVERSE is responsible for the overall staff development programme. The specific expertise of the individual disability officers – including those based at Glasgow and Edinburgh – will be combined in order to ensure a wide-ranging programme. Staff involved are:
Cambridge
Judith Jesky, University Disability Adviser and Kirsty White, Disability Awareness Training Co-ordinator
The University of Cambridge Disability Resources Centre have offered the expertise of their Disability Equality Training (DET) provider to ensure a rich cross-fertilisation of ideas, as well as the benefit of the considerable expertise gained in dealing with the academic community at Cambridge. Disability officers who have a disability will be involved.
Liverpool
Elizabeth Naylor, Student Welfare & Disability Adviser
Bristol
Claire Wickham, at Bristol’s Centre for Access & Communication Studies, is also likely to be involved in the staff development programme.
Staff involved in ‘Partners in Practice’, another 3 year collaborative HEFCE project between Bristol, the University of the West of England and the Peninsula Medical School, are also keen to liaise with DIVERSE. ‘Partners in Practice’ focuses on disability equality for healthcare professionals.
