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From: Angharad Beckett
Sent: 18 June 2009 13:13
To: Mark Priestley; Colin Barnes
Subject: INVITATION TO EVENT AT UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Dear All,
This is a message invitating members of disabled people's organisations, or other interested individuals, to attend the feedback/validation event for the DEEPS Project - a project based at the Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds.
THE EVENT TAKES PLACE ON 10th JULY, 11am-3pm. VENUE: UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS.
This project considered the following:
- the extent and nature of teaching about disability within English primary schools and what, if any, challenges schools and teachers face in terms of promoting disability awareness amongst non-disabled children.
- primary-age non-disabled children's knowledge about and attitudes towards disability and the lives of disabled people.
Further details of the project can be found at:
http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/research/projects/deeps/
Our overall aim/philosophy is to explore the prospects for (and indeed promote the idea of!) 'anti-disablist' education.
We have gathered our data and developed our initial conclusions, but before we finalise these, we would really value feedback from all potential user groups, especially disabled people and their organisations. We would ensure that your views were referenced in our final report.
There are 3 places available to representatives of disabled people's organisations at this event and so if anyone would be interested in attending, we would really like to hear from you, please! We are able to pay travel expenses and lunch will be provided. Should more than 3 people be interested in hearing about and discussing our findings, then there will also be an end-of-project conference (free to attend) in September and I will be forwarding info. about that event in due course.
For now, however, if anyone would like to attend the feedback/validation event - and I am saying a BIG PLEASE here! - then I hope that you will contact me. My email is: [log in to unmask] and telephone number: 0113 3434409 (includes answerphone).
Yours sincerely,
Angharad.
Dr Angharad E. Beckett,
Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy,
School of Sociology and Social Policy,
University of Leeds,
Leeds,
LS2 9JT.
Tel: 0113 3434409
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