This session was useful because it helped me draw parallels between my ARP and that of my colleagues. We were able to bounce ideas off each other and practice communicating our proposals to a larger audience.

Key Feedback and Insights

• Use Times Higher as an educational resource – Judy has recommended a useful article for me about neurodiversity within higher education
• Use my network to market my pilot workshop to my target audience of neurodiverse women of colour. Lindsay suggested I post my workshop in the PgCert Q&A – Misc forum and ask colleagues to share it with their students to encourage sign ups
• My group thinks I should use my positionality and experience as a former neurodiverse woman of colour studying at CSM to strengthen my pilot workshop call-out and inspire current students to participate
• It would be great if I can complete two action research cycles by piloting my workshop with colleagues first, but as long as I complete one cycle, I will be on track for the unit
• The main thing I need to consider is how I will meaningfully document and evaluate my workshop. This is something to trial with colleagues first and seek their critical advice before I approach students
• Lindsay said I could borrow her copy of ‘Rethinking Disability’, which she recommended for my research
• Andrea’s project inspired me to contact Academic Support to get an insight into how neurodiverse students are using workshops to support their learning needs

Next steps

• I should reflect on the 250+ student responses I have collected after my object-based learning workshops through my Google feedback form and see what suggestions would be beneficial to implement in my pilot workshop
• I should spend some time researching the Universal Design Principles and various research methods so I can figure out how to improve my pilot workshop draft structure and collect meaningful feedback from colleagues and students
• I should make an Excel spreadsheet of all the courses I have already delivered OBL workshops for and list the email addresses of the course leaders to send my pilot workshop open-call
• I should get some provisional dates in the diary to run the pilot workshop with my colleagues and also to run it for students