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Business School to celebrate National Inclusion Week 2021 with series of events for students and staff

Posted on behalf of: University of Sussex Business School

Last updated: Friday, 3 September 2021

Atif Choudhury, Co-Founder and CEO of Diversity & Ability, will join us for Thursday's session on diversity and inclusion.

To mark this year’s National Inclusion Week, the Business School has arranged a series of events that we hope will be of interest to both students and staff.

The 2021 theme for National Inclusion Week, taking place 27 September to 3 October 2021, is United For Inclusion. It is about bringing people together to share learning and best practice so we can work together to reach our shared goal of making inclusion an everyday reality.

In the spirit of this, we have arranged for a three-hour introduction to British Sign Language and a series of workshops throughout the week that will help everyone discover more accessible ways of working, with a particular focus on assisting those who identify as having a neurodiversity.

We’re delighted to be hosting Atif Choudhury for Thursday’s session, who, amongst other roles, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Diversity & Ability. Atif will be speaking about how building equity around race, class and culture allows all of us to bring our whole selves to work.

Business School Director of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Corinna Hattersley-Mitchell, said, “I am excited to be able to announce a brilliant series of events for this year’s National Inclusion Week and really hope that you will join me in some of these sessions which should prove to be really useful and insightful for everyone.

“This will be a fantastic opportunity to expand your knowledge and will provide you with practical tools to help both yourself and others around you.

“The challenges of the last year and a half have highlighted even more how important it is for us to all work together, to be inclusive and accessible, and only by doing this can we move forward to a better future.”

All sessions are open to all students and staff across the University and no prior knowledge is needed.