Equity-related events and resources
Find out about equity-related events, virtual conferences, webinars and resources.
NZ Sign Language Week - 9 - 15 May, 2022
Watch a video by student Isy Pou made with help from a member of the Deaf community and translating Six60's Sundown.
- Learn the sign language alphabet from this instructional video.
- Learn the alphabet - poster
- The NZSL Online Dictionary is available at nzsl.nz - a free app
Global Accessibility Awareness Day - Thursday 19 May, 2022
See Creating accessible communications.
- Read about a student startup using virtual reality to help neurodivergent people practise for employment challenges, called Socius XR.
Mental Health Awareness Week 26 Sept to 2 Oct 2022
- The University defines mental illness as a disability. Student Disability Services has mental health advisers providing long-term support to students with diagnosed mental health conditions.
Family and relationship violence: It’s Not OK - University staff
workshops
Family/relationship violence and abuse is unacceptable. Every person is
entitled to respect, and to live free from fear and abuse.
Held throughout the year, the Staff Equity Manager, and a senior trainer from SHINE lead a family/relationship violence training session open to all staff.
This interactive training session includes how to manage disclosures,
making it particularly valuable to front line staff. Register via Career Tools.
Other resources
- Universal Design for Learning: Learn how to bring in universal design in a 3 Dec 2021 webinar launching free online training.
- For more information about Accessibility Awareness: Access Advisors and Access Alliance. See also Accessible University
- Te Tiriti-based Futures and anti-racism 2020 open access online conference was held 21-30 March 2020 webinars now available
- An online symposium, with speakers on refugee resettlement issues, was held by Refugees As Survivors NZ. The recordings can be found here: https://rasnz.co.nz/events/
- Refugees As Survivors NZ has undertaken a survey of New Zealanders' Perceptions of Refugees. The survey was conducted in collaboration with Colmar Brunton and can be found here https://rasnz.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/New-Zealanders-Perceptions-of-Refugees.pdf