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Disability History Month seems like a good time to remind people that only 5% of people with learning disabilities are in employment. Why is this? ukdhm.org/give-more-people-w…
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Disability History Month 2024 focuses on disability, livelihood, and employment.
Is change happening quickly enough? rixinclusiveresearch.org/dis…
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It's Disability History Month, a time to reflect on how society's attitude to disability has changed over the years in the UK.
Read more here ukdhm.org/
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We can't wait for our joint event with @PathfindersNMA on Sunday 8th December.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the @UEL_News Docklands Campus, thinking about well-being and getting Christmassy!
UpLift INFORM IRL Christmas Get-Together
📆 Sunday 8th December 2024
⌚ 11:00 - 17:00
📍 University of East London
💷 FREE - lunch included
📝 Sign up - forms.gle/aGtpNsFbrEjqGyqp9
Pathfinders and UpLift are hosting a Christmas Wellbeing Get-together!
Rix team member Nicola Grove, & Karen Bunning, have published a paper titled: Creative Journeys Involving Adults With Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities: Co-Development in Multi-Sensory Theatre
doi.org/10.1111/bld.12631
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We are working on a brand new software application concept with our CAPA business consultants! We can’t wait to hear their thoughts and ideas!
Our fabulous purpleSTARS return to UCL as guest lecturers to share their lived experience with students from the MASc Creative Health programme. Here's an account of last year's guest lecture rixinclusiveresearch.org/sha…
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Our fabulous purpleSTARS return to UCL as guest lecturers to share their lived experience with students from the MSc Creative Health programme. Here’s an account of last years guest lecture rixinclusiveresearch.org/sha…
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Congratulations Jacqui @airthriehomes, a well deserved award!
We are celebrating with the winners of best supported living awards across north east London…Airthree Homes. This amazing org are friends and co researchers with Rix!
Communications Café - a unique and practical experience that goes beyond classroom learning. Teaching future social work practitioners the real art of advocacy. Read the full article -
rixinclusiveresearch.org/com…
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Check our latest case study on how sharing ‘About Me’ information helped Cassie feel much more settled in hospital, reduced her #anxiety, and helped the #hospital team engage with her positively with kindness and familiarity.
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ALT People talking around the table having tea/coffee
ALT People talking around the table having tea/coffee
ALT People talking around the table having tea/coffee
ALT People talking around the table having tea/coffee
👏We're delighted to welcome @rix_centre as our Quality Partner!
Their RIX Wiki/Rix Multi Me Toolkit software, which enables people with #learningdisabilities to use technology to share their stories, needs and preferences, has become conformant with 'About Me'!
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RIX Inclusive Research Institute retweeted
👏We're delighted to welcome @rix_centre as our Quality Partner!
Their RIX Wiki/Rix Multi Me Toolkit software, which enables people with #learningdisabilities to use technology to share their stories, needs and preferences, has become conformant with 'About Me'!
🧷theprsb.org/news/rix-on-a-mi…
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The Communication Café - space to meet, space to talk, a chance to discover what binds us together, whatever our differences. Let's leave our hats at the door and share our common human experiences.
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Blog from Sarah Petter, @UkNatArchives blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk…
Thank you for inviting purpleSTARS @SensoryObjects, to share our expertise on how to engage audiences in archive collections using a sensory approach.
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How can we make culture more accessible and more inclusive? Check out the latest episode on UEL's Science Out East podcast, Making public spaces inclusive with purpleSTARS.
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New episode of Science Out East! 🎧
On this episode, we discussed how to make spaces inclusive with Katen Allen and Samantha Walker, researchers from purpleSTARS which are part of the Rix Inclusive Research Institute.
Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/0Q2… @rix_centre @SensoryObjects #ScienceOutEast
ALT Three people wearing headphones smiling inside a radio studio. Text reads 'Science Out East', 'Making public spaces inclusive with purplestars'.
Exploring the Venn diagrams of shared experience at the Communication Café, our Social Work students sit down with people with a lived experience of difference/disability and find common ground.
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Collaborating with the amazing designers at Goya Design Studios to create a set of ‘thinking hat’ cards similar to ‘top trumps’.. watch this space for the final cards designs…
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