Widening access to study and employment | 12 April

How can tertiary education widen opportunities for a diverse range of students, and increase access to employment for the many? Whilst employability has been an  increasingly central concern in university education, the ways in which learning environments interact with the multiple backgrounds and experiences of students (for example by being first-in-family or living with impairment) is less well researched or discussed. 

This seminar will explore how we can prepare a wide range of potential students for academic life, and support them in their learning experiences. It aims to share knowledge and experiences across UTS that engages with these issues. And it will debate what kinds of  policies, curricula, spaces and support services can make education more accessible to all.  

Bio

Jos Boys is Senior Lecturer in Learning Environments at the Bartlett School, University College London. She is also Co-Director of the DisOrdinary Architecture Project that brings together disabled artists with students, educators and practitioners across built environment disciplines, to co-design new forms of practice around access and inclusion. Jos has written extensively about both university learning environments and the intersections of gender, disability and built space. Her current research concerns how to re-think and design for inclusion in education at post-compulsory levels both within and beyond the academy.