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ECU Sensory Audit Project: HEI Participation Dear Colleagues Institutions are invited to take part in this project, which will involve audits being undertaken by a consultant over 2/ 3 days, who will explore access to the general campus, student services and to learning and teaching environments for students with visual and hearing impairments and autism spectrum disorders. The institution will receive a free confidential report that can be used to support its disability equality scheme and inform its action planning. The institution will be asked to provide a key contact, who will help the consultant to organise the audit and to set up interviews with students with sensory impairments and staff responsible for the audit environments. Institutions will be also be asked to allow anonymised findings from the audits to be collated into practical briefings to estates, student services and learning and teaching managers. ECU will select three institutions for audit. The HEIs will be chosen to reflect a range of campus environments to enable maximum transferability of the findings. If you are interested in taking part, please send an email outlining your contact details, your reasons for wanting to be included and a short description of your campus environment by Monday 20th April 2009 to [log in to unmask] with the subject heading Sensory Campus Access Audits. Many thanks Stuart Moore <http://www.ecu.ac.uk/Members/StuartM> Policy Adviser Direct tel 020 7438 1023 E-mail [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Switchboard 020 7438 1010 Fax 020 7438 1011 Equality Challenge Unit <http://www.ecu.ac.uk> 7th Floor, Queens House 55/56 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LJ *******************************DISCLAIMER******************************* **** Equality Challenge Unit Company limited by guarantee, number 05689975 Registered charity, number 1114417 Registered office: 7th floor, Queens House, 55/56 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ, United Kingdom. Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) promotes equality and diversity in higher education. ECU is funded by Universities UK, GuildHE, and the UK higher education funding bodies (HEFCE, HEFCW, DEL-NI) and by SFC to work in collaboration with Equality Forward in Scotland. Although every effort is made to ensure that the information contained within this email is accurate and up to date, ECU cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. The information is not a substitute for legal advice, and should you require more specific advice you should consult an appropriately qualified professional advisor. This message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you should not copy or disclose this message to anyone but should kindly notify the sender and delete the message. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of ECU shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. No contracts shall be concluded by means of this e-mail. Neither ECU nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses. The administrator of this e-mail service reserves the right to access and disclose all messages sent over its e-mail system.