The Neurodiversity Community of Practice and its Resource Bank

This session will give an overview of the ethos of the neurodiversity community of practice, its guiding principles and neurodiversity-affirming frame. It will outline the ways that these commitments were carried into the submission and reviewer guidance for the community’s resource bank. Finally, it will showcase topics covered in the community of practice meetings and leave space for participant knowledge sharing across our different contexts.

Presenters:

• Jennie Dettmer co-founded the Neurodivergence CoP in 2021. She is a qualified dyslexia tutor, a Certified Leading Practitioner of LD, a Senior Fellow of HEA and has an MA in Education (SEND and Inclusion). She has over twenty years of teaching experience and currently works as a Senior Academic Skills Tutor at the University of Hertfordshire in the Hertfordshire Business School.
• Rachel Griffiths is a Senior Educator Developer and manages the University of Exeter’s Inclusive Education Project, leading institutional strategy and training on teaching and learning that better supports the needs of its diverse student body, by design. She is a Fellow of HEA and holds an MEd (Autism) and an MSc in Educational Research. She is also an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher, exploring neurodivergent belonging in higher education.