CILIP seeks first Aspire Award winner
New professionals in CILIP membership can now submit an application to become the first winner of the Aspire Award in memory of Bob McKee, which has been established to help new professionals to develop through networking at UK and international events. The successful applicant will receive a full residential place, and support for travel to and from the venue, at CILIP’s Umbrella 2011: www.cilip.org.uk/umbrella2011.
Closing date for applications is 5pm on Thursday 9th June. Full details of how to apply for the Aspire Award 2011 are available on the CILIP website at www.cilip.org.uk/aspireaward.
Re-framing disability: portraits from the Royal College of Physicians 14 February – 8 July 2011
An exhibition exploring four centuries of hidden history with responses from disabled people today. The RCP is hosting an exhibition exploring historical portraits of disabled people held within our collections, taking place from 14 February to 8 July 2011. The exhibition includes the voices of 27 disabled participants from across the UK, who came together to discuss the historical portraits and their own identities and lives.
The accompanying events programme includes a BSL-interpreted tour and audio described tour of the RCP’s Grade I listed building. The exhibition will tour to further venues throughout 2011–12. Between 28 July and 29 September 2011 the exhibition will be held at Shape, the disability-led arts organisation, in Kentish Town, London.
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/museum-garden/whats-on/re-framing-disability
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award - 23 June 2011
23 June Frances Lincoln Limited, the award-winning publisher, and Seven Stories, the Centre for Children’s Books, are delighted with the success to date of the Diverse Voices Award, set up in memory of Frances Lincoln (1945-2001) to encourage and promote diversity in children’s fiction. The prize of £1,500 plus the option for Janetta Otter-Barry at Frances Lincoln Children’s Books to publish the novel is awarded to the best manuscript for 8-to-12-year-olds that celebrates diversity in the widest possible sense.
The winner of the second Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award in 2010 was Tom Avery, a teacher working in a culturally diverse inner city school, for "Too Much Trouble", a story the judges described as ‘an Oliver Twist of our times’. The contemporary adventure story is a dramatic page-turner about Emmanuel and Prince, two brothers who fall in with a gang of pickpockets when their family abandons them. Fast paced and full of tension, it explores big issues such as illegal immigration, what makes a family and the ethical dilemmas surrounding crimes committed for survival.
The presentation of this year’s Award and the publication of Too Much Trouble by Tom Avery, winner of last year’s Award is on Thursday 23 June 2011, 1 – 4 pm in the Artist’s Attic, Seven Stories. Please contact Liz Paton by Thursday 9th June for information, email: liz.paton@sevenstories.org.uk, telephone 0845 271 0777 x 706
Website: www.sevenstories.org.uk
Sandra Shevey - Exhibitions
Sandra Shevey, who is a curator at the Archive of Popular Culture has two exhibitions which are based on her research and exhibitions at Westminster Reference Library. Sandra was one of the nominees for the Diversity Award 2010.
She would like to see other venues host both the Alfred Hitchcock Location Art Exhibition and the exhibition: Outing Hollywood or renamed Material Hollywood. Both exhibitions are aimed at addressing diversity issues.
Alfred Hitchcock Location Art Exhibition leaflet (PDF - 62KB)
Outing Hollywood leaflet (PDF - 108KB)
She is also currently curating an upcoming exhibition and talks about Street Markets in Cinema. The celebration will include a screening of her own markets documentary, 'London's Ancient Markets: Their Fight for Survival'.
Sandra's website is: http://sandrashevey.tripod.com
Sandra Shevey email: sandra_shevey@yahoo.com
Diversity Group now on Facebook!
The Diversity group now has its own page on Facebook. Log into Facebook and click the Like button to stay up to date with all the latest Diversity Group news, connect with other members, and see pictures of the 2010 conference and Diversity Award.
Diversity Group Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/DiversityGroupFacebook
Treloar College Study Day 24 June 2009
Learner-centred provision for students with disabilities: Treloar's multidisciplinary model.
Information
Report from Treloar College study day (PDF - 16 KB) - kindly written for the Diversity Group by Moira Johnson, Treloar College.
Summary document and booking information (PDF - 92KB)
Presentations
Moving On presentation (PDF - 40KB) - Elaine Brace
Inclusive mobile learning and AccessApps – assistive technology for free and in your pocket. (PDF - 548KB) - Alistair McNaught, JISC TechDis
The LexDis project, support available for disabled students, use of Web 2.0 social networking tools (PDF - 645KB) - E.A. Draffen, University of Southampton
Treloar College in partnership with the Diversity Group ran a study day of interest to Learning Resource Centre staff, special needs support staff and IT staff in FE, HE and other settings seeking to improve the quality of services for disabled learners.
The programme includes presentations from Treloar specialists in rehabilitation engineering, electronic assistive technology, occupational therapy, speech & language therapy, visual impairment, literacy, and computer services. Delegates heard how learners progress beyond Treloars with evidence from Connexions and careers staff, alumni records and the Moving On project.
Enquiries: Moira Johnson, LRC Manager, Treloar College, Holybourne, Alton, Hants GU34 4EN. Tel: 01420 547495. Email: moira.johnson@treloar.org.uk
Treloar website: http://www.treloar.org.uk/
Encompass
The Diversity Group gives its support to the work of Encompass.
Encompass is a positive action trainee scheme to encourage members of the Black and minority ethnic communities to seek a library and information career. It's a partnership between CILIP, the Skills Development Agency Path National, and employers.
Encompass toolkit
CILIP’s new Encompass Toolkit offers guidance to employers in the sector wishing to diversify their workforce. The toolkit is available on CILIP’s website and as a PDF to download. Click here to access the toolkit.
Ayub Khan, Chair of CILIP’s Equal Opportunities & Diversity Panel, said, “I am so pleased the toolkit has now been published. It is an important part of our overall Encompass Programme and shows CILIP’s commitment to opening up the profession to all parts of UK society”.
More information is available on the CILIP Encompass webpages.
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Last updated: 2 June 2011