ECU has joined forces with Curtin University, UWA, Murdoch University and Notre Dame University for Respect at Uni Week. This year, Respect at Uni Week will run from 18 - 22 March.
Respect at Uni Week is an initiative from the Victorian Tertiary Primary Prevention Network, promoting the importance of respect, equality and inclusion on our campuses and online spaces.
Today, 26 October, ECU is commemorating Intersex Awareness Day by raising the intersex flag on our metro campuses and calling on other education institutions to sign the Darlington Statement and commit to intersex inclusive practices, policy and curriculum.
Disability Pride Month is a celebration of disability identity, community, and advocacy. Historically, ableist ideas of disability have been socially constructed as the truth, where disability is seen as something shameful to be hidden from public space. Disability Pride is a response and counteraction against these ableist social stigmas, placing the autonomy of disabled identity into the hands of people with disability to define.
To celebrate thirty years of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we hosted an event with the theme ‘Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world’, showcasing the work and voices of students with lived experience of disability and accessible learning in a digital environment at ECU.
National Week of Deaf People is an annual week long celebration of the Australian Deaf community. It is held in September each year, coinciding with the celebration of International Week of Deaf People (IWDP) and International Day of Sign Languages. Everyone has a part to play in creating safe and inclusive envrionments for Deaf people. Here are some ways you can be more inclusive to Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities.
ECU staff now have the option to include pronouns on name badges
ECU staff and students celebrated Wear It Purple Day on Friday 26 August, by wearing purple and holding events on each campus.
ECU staff are invited to join the Disability Access and Inclusion Sub-Committee to advise on services and facilities for people with disability.
The Disability Royal Commission will be at ECU to talk to First Nations people with disability, families, support staff, advocates and researchers.
We would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the Noongar people, the traditional custodians of the land upon which ECU's campuses stand and programs operate.