Disability & Accessibility Sandpit event with Bath Spa University
Mon, 29 Jan
|Locksbrook Campus Bath
The Research Support Office & Impact Accelerator Account team at Bath Spa University (BSU) are running a 'Sandpit' event at our Locksbrook Campus on 29th January 2023.
Time & Location
29 Jan 2024, 19:00
Locksbrook Campus Bath, Locksbrook Rd, Bath BA1 3EL, UK
About the Event
The Research Support Office & Impact Accelerator Account team at Bath Spa University (BSU) are running a 'Sandpit' event at our Locksbrook Campus on 29th January 2024. We'd like to invite expressions of interest in attending from BSU researchers, local council staff, 3rd sector and arts organisations and disabled and/or neurodivergent creative practitioners living in the Bath & North East Somerset area.
The form to sign up to the Sandpit is here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=U2ZwI1fNBEWaWQlgJR20sF4iKlyCUddMgsEemoZnaH1UQ1FNRjFFWUNXWFZBTUJPMDFPMEhUWFdaTS4u
If this form doesn't work for you, please contact Nik Rawlings at n.rawlings@bathspa.ac.uk
What is a Sandpit? Sandpits are interactive workshops which involve a small group of researchers,a team of subject experts, and a number of independent stakeholders - in this case including 3rd sector campaigners and creative practitioners. We'll be working together to talk about the specific issues faced in Bath & North East Somerset by disabled and neurodivergent people, and rapidly workshopping creative proposals for how to improve them. We have a grant worth £4000 to offer for these ideas to then be developed,which could either be as one large grant for one project, or split into smaller pots to support more prototype projects; depending on the needs identified in the Sandpit. Sandpit Objectives Bring researchers, policymakers, creatives with lived experience and campaigners together to influence local decisionmaking and commissioningon accessibility and disability issues; encouraging creative and genuine co-creation of schemes and policy that improves experiences of access in Bath and North EastSomerset. Primary Questions for the Sandpit
- Identifyingthe problematic access touchpoints/systems faced by disabled & neurodiverse people in BANES in their lived experience.
- How can A&H Research and practitioners co-create and co-design creative solutions that solve or positively impactthese touchpoints?
Attendance fees for self employed practitioners attendance are £250 for the day. Organisational contributions available by request if required