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Dear All, On Friday my colleague Mark Priestley kindly posted an email about the Disability Equality in English Primary Schools ‘End-of-Project’ Conference, which is due to take place on 15th September, Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds (10.00-16.30). I just wanted to say a couple more things about this event, if I may: 1. **INVITATION TO EVERYONE** Firstly, I wanted to add to the conference invitation by mentioning that we have collected some really interesting data about what non-disabled children know (and quite often don’t know/understand) about disability and the lives of disabled people. We have also uncovered some interesting data about what, if anything, English primary schools are currently doing to promote positive attitudes towards disabled people and any challenges that schools/teachers face in this regard. I would very much like to share this data with you and would value your thoughts upon it. 2. **CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS** Secondly, I wanted to send out a call to all disabled people’s organisations that carry out work in UK primary schools to raise disability awareness amongst non-disabled children. If you would be interested in talking about the work of your organisation during the DEEPS Conference, then I would very much like to hear from you. My aim is to ensure that there is plenty of opportunity during the conference for people to talk about the work that they are doing with schools and to share knowledge about activities. Please do contact me if you would like to discuss this further. Do hope to hear from you! Best wishes, Angharad Beckett. Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy, Principal Investigator, DEEPS Project, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. Tel: 0113 3434409 Email: [log in to unmask] ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.