NADSN Conference at The University of Edinburgh
Friday 17th March 2017
The National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) and The University of Edinburgh‘s Disabled Staff Network have collaborated to proudly present a one-day national conference for NADSN
- Main Conference timing: 10:00am – 3:00pm
- Venue: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCi), The University of Edinburgh, Old High School, 1-9 High School Yards, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LZ
Please BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE HERE – All Welcome!
This NADSN Conference, held for the first time in Scotland and hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Disabled Staff Network, provides a great opportunity for disabled employees in Higher and Further Education, friends and supporters, HR Equality and Diversity teams to meet up and share ideas. With a focus on benchmarking, attendees will hear from inspiring speakers about current good practice and find out about new research into the experiences of disabled staff in the workplace.
There will be opportunities to chat with people who have extensive experience in growing networks and to be involved in new regional networks across the UK.
We are delighted to have as our key speakers:
- Kate Nash OBE: inspiring Networkologist, Author of “Secrets and Big News”, and Founder of PurpleSpace
- Bela Gor: Legal Director at the Business Disability Forum
- Stephanie Millar: Senior Policy Advisor (Scotland) at the Equality Challenge Unit
- Dr Kate Sang: Associate Professor in Management at Heriot-Watt University
Kate Nash Associates developed PurpleSpace which is the UK’s only learning, networking and professional development hub for disabled employees, employee network leaders and allies from all sectors and trades. PurpleSpace has a community of over 300 Disability Employee Networks (DEN) or Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and the estimated 850,000 disabled employees that they represent. Their 300 clients include Fujitsu, Barclays, EY, Metropolitan Police Service, Home Office, Thomson Reuters and RBS.
Bela Gor has over 20 years’ experience of all aspects of disability discrimination law and best practice. Bela has worked closely with BDF Partners in the financial, retail, broadcast media and health sectors and advises on a variety of subjects ranging from the law and reasonable adjustments in both employment and customer contexts to consumers in vulnerable situations and accessible technology and mental health. She is a lawyer who took some of the earliest cases under the then new Disability Discrimination Act 1995 while working for the Disability Law Service, a nationwide law centre for disabled people, and has since influenced the development of the legislation.
Stephanie Millar is a leading member of the ECU team working with universities and colleges in Scotland.
Dr Kate Sang has been funded by an EPSRC career acceleration grant to record the experiences of disabled academics in the physics and engineering fields. Dr Sang will share her early research findings with the conference.
We cordially invite all colleagues in higher and further education institutions across the UK, who are members of disabled staff networks or have an interest in disability, to attend this exciting event!
This conference will include the first meeting of the NADSN Steering Committee
- Time: Lunchtime
- Venue: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCi), The University of Edinburgh, Old High School, 1-9 High School Yards, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LZ
Steering Committee members are encouraged to attend this meeting, and will be contacted directly with details.
This event has been organised by Jacquie Nicholson at The University of Edinburgh
