On Tuesday 23 January 2020 Marc Fabri delivered a lecture on ‘Supporting autistic students on their journey through higher education: small changes, big impact’. The invited talk is part of UCC’s Quercus Lecture Series which promotes excellence in academia, sports, the arts and active citizenship. Marc was invited by UCC’s Autism-Friendly University team. The lecture…
Brief overview of IMAGE project’s autumn 2019
It’s a new year and our Co-creation workshops are at full swing in all our partner countries. We are gathering information for our 3 intellectual outputs. But what has happened before that? Let’s have a look at the last six months of 2019. Partner Meeting in Helsinki In June we had our second Transnational Partner…
We are looking for volunteers to become part of our co-creation team.
During January and February 2020, we will be running a series of co-creation workshops in the UK and we invite you to take part in one of these workshops. Together we will design an employability toolkit for students, training materials for university staff and guides for employers. Please join us if you are currently: a…
3 December 2019: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
In a blog post for Emerald, the international journal publishing house, Dr Marc Fabri from Leeds Beckett University shares his thoughts on using participatory design methods with autistic adults, and how this can help build and support a community. This is based on Marc’s experience from running the Autism&Uni project (www.autism-uni.org) which focused on the…
IMAGE co-designers organise conference session on Participatory Design
The underlying ethos of the IMAGE project is participation: autistic students participate in the creation of an employability toolkit, careers advisors co-creating training materials on autism support. The IMAGE project has now teamed up with the lovely people at DUXU, the International Conference of Design, User Experience and Usability. DUXU will be held in Copenhagen,…
Designing digital tools for autistic students – reflections on participatory design
When designing software for autistic adults their needs, preferences and characteristics have to be considered. In this blog post Marc Fabri shares his thoughts on how to approach the design one of the key outputs from the IMAGE project: An employability toolkit for autistic students. We know that autistic people typically welcome structure, both in…
Partner introduction: The Université of Toulouse
The Université of Toulouse brings together the main higher education and research institutions in Toulouse and its region (23 higher education institutions, 1 university hospital and 7 research organisations), located in 11 cities in 8 French departments. Its ambition is to enroll at the highest international level at the academic and scientific level by promoting…
Meet Minja, our new research assisstant!
The IMAGE project has a new research assisstant in Helsinki. Meet Minja Lahdelma, who has been helping us with the data collected in the project! ”Hey! I’m undergraduate student majoring in Special Education at the University of Helsinki and I’m working as a research assistant for IMAGE Project. Like Juuso, I have a background in…
PAN-EUROPEAN SURVEY: Let us know what autism and graduate employment means to you (now closed)
Take part in our multi-national survey and help us identify what changes need to happen so that more autistic graduates can gain employment after completing their university studies. We would like to hear from you whether you are an autistic student or graduate, working at a university, or you are an employer. The survey is…
Partner Introduction: University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki is the largest and oldest higher education institution in Finland. The University is an international community of approximately 33,000 students and 7,000 staff members including professors, university lecturers that teach and conduct research, as well as full time researchers. The university has been listed one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary academic…