Events

Being heard: How everyone benefits from deaf awareness

Online event free

Date: 25 Mar 2025

Time: 12:00 - 13:00

Location: Online via Zoom

Organised by: EPC & The Engineering Deaf Awareness Project (E-DAP)

This inclusion webinar will launch a brand-new Engineering Deaf Awareness Project (E-DAP) Toolkit, provide practical guidance, clear instructions, and actionable tips to help you embed inclusive practices in your work and showing how deaf awareness supports every student.

The webinar will provide practical guidance, including the introduction of a brand new toolkit, clear instructions, and actionable tips to help you embed inclusive practices in your work. You’ll also hear real-life experiences from those who have created inclusive environments, alongside insights from members of the deaf community.

You’ll leave with a better understanding of deaf inclusion, practical steps you can apply immediately, and the confidence to create a more accessible and inclusive environment in your workplace, lab or classroom.

Who should attend?
You have the power to make engineering inclusive. Small changes in how you teach, research, collaborate, and work can create a more accessible environment for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Whether you work in academia, research, are an engineering professional, or a student looking to help shape a more inclusive and collaborative future for engineering, this is for you.

Webinar Programme

Introduction to E-DAP & Webinar Overview
Captions: Show & Tell
Break & Q&A
Panel Discussion & Q&A
Audience Survey via Slido
Closing Remarks

Frankie GarforthRNID

Frankie Garforth is an inclusion and employment specialist at RNID (Royal National Institute for Deaf People). With over a decade of experience working in the third sector, Frankie brings a wealth of experience of creating inclusive workplaces.

Ellie Hayward The Engineering Deaf Awareness Project (E-DAP)

Ellie Hayward is a project manager and scrum master with expertise in cyber security and the civil service. She is passionate about embedding accessibility and equity into the workplace, and piloted innovative project management techniques in real-world settings to shift workplace cultures towards greater inclusivity and accessibility.

Dr. Sarah Jayne HittEPC Toolkit Project Manager

Dr. Sarah Jayne Hitt has been teaching in universities for almost 20 years in both the US and the UK. In 2019 she moved to Hereford to become Founding Professor of Liberal Studies at its start-up higher education provider, the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE), specialising in bringing ethics, communication, sustainability, and a place-based approach to the curriculum. She also works with organisations like the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Professors Council, and Engineers Without Borders – UK on projects to support globally responsible engineering education and practice.