Inclusion - Schools Conference, Derby

Had a wonderful morning up in Derby yesterday, drawing a slightly epic 4 metres of live scribing for a very enthusiastic and passionate crowd of heads and other inclusive teaching advocates. This is my 3rd year and I’ve already been invited back for next year! Thanks to Jo Wilkinson and the Inclusion Partnership https://inclusionpartnership.co.uk/inclusion-conference/

Also thanks to John Felix for the lovely portraits! https://johnfelix.com/

UCL the Grand Challenges: Climate Change

 

Please double click to enlarge! University College London have several large research projects that they call Grand Challenges, mainly because - they’re huge things to tackle, often described as ‘wicked’ problems. 

This was a town hall on Climate Change, and as we’re all starting to swelter this summer, I really hope some of their research comes up with some gems!

Kinship report

Some work I live scribed and then added to post-event for the charity ‘Kinship’ .https://kinship.org.uk/ 

A call to the government - to reform the support given to kinship carers, because they’re doing largely unpaid and unsupported work looking after vulnerable children.

Logo Design, Family Hub site, East London

Had a panicked call recently from a client who need a logo design, pronto! So after a rapid exchange of listening and squiggly sketches I came up with a couple of options, and the final image was chosen, (very quickly!) and is now being used on signage out in the eastern fringes of London.

Merton Children’s Parliament

Had a lovely time yesterday, listening to children in southwest London in the Borough of Merton, as they were talking about their experiences of participating in the Children’s Parliament over the last couple of years.

The children were all around 11 and were really enthusiastic and very confident in speaking up, it was great to be a part of such a positive event. The Children’s Parliament will continue in the next academic year.

I was working digitally and prepared the first of the below images from briefing call notes and pre-designed the layout. The other 3 images were drawn directly from listening live.

Feeling included and cared for at school - Illustrations

I was asked to create a series of images aimed at educators for the Derby County Community Trust INCLUSION conference coming up later this month. I’ll be back live scribing up in Derby (go the Rams!) stadium in a couple of weeks, can’t wait :)

The first sequence shows the effects of applying strict rules instead of taking the time to understand the child, so by the end of the day she’s miserable. The second sequence shows the pupil feeling seen and heard, and the result is that he’s had the opposite experience, and he’s had a great day.

Dementia prevention, sharing research for University College London

I had a lovely afternoon scribing at a public engagement event about dementia in London yesterday. The event was run by University College London, and was a sort of crossover between knowledge exchange and public health messaging with several dementia research groups there to share their findings with the public. 

The good news is: research that has been undertaken recently by Professor Gill Livingston has found that dementia is up to 45% preventable if you remove the following 14 risk factors:

Unfortunately, as we heard from participants, as we grow older and become physically infirm or lose sight or hearing this can also lead to social isolation, adding to the potential risk for dementia. Other things were a surprise, eg I wasn’t aware of the impact of air pollution and high LDL cholesterol as risk factors for dementia. (So more walks in the woods and healthy snacks for me then!)