CPD Revolution Keynote addresses
This year we are partnering with Disabled Students UK (DSUK) to bring you informative and engaging keynote addresses from students and recent graduates with disability lived experience.
DSUK shares disabled students’ insight to inform policy and increase accessibility in Higher Education. Promoting an evidence based apporach, their Annual Disabled Student Survey is the largest survey into accessibility in UK Higher Education and paints a picture of the disabled student experience at various Higher Education Providers.
Each CPD Rev event will open with a keynote address from a member of Disabled Students UK. Each talk will showcase Disabled Students UK’s compelling findings from their Annual Disabled Student Survey, as well as delve into the speaker’s own, personal story of lived experience, as we explore this year’s theme of co-occurrence of disabilities.
Find out more about the keynote speaker for each CPD Rev location below:
Morning Keynote
Mette Anwar-Westander
Mette Anwar-Westander is the Founding Director of Disabled Students UK, recognised by Shaw Trust as one of the most influential disabled-led organisations in the UK.
Mette is autistic and lives with a chronic illness. They graduated from the University of Oxford in 2019 and completed an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2023. As CEO of DSUK, Mette’s passion for disability wisdom, systems building, and impact strategy are all evident in the organisations’ approach to change.
Anna Freed
Anna Freed is a master’s student with the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and part of Disabled Students UK.
Anna completed her undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge in 2022, where she worked on various disability advocacy projects. Alongside consulting with DSUK, she has been working with Head Up!, a disabled-led mentoring organisation for disabled young people considering higher education, which she helped found in 2020. She is neurodivergent, has a nerve pain condition, and, since the start of the year, has been learning to live with Crohn’s and a stoma.
Felicity McKee
Felicity McKee is a researcher and part of Disabled Students UK.
As an activist Felicity is passionate about issues of equality and intersectionality and this is reflected in her research output, having just recently submitted her PhD in Disability History. Felicity has sat on regional and national disabled students’ committees with NUS and NUS-USI and consults and advises on accessibility issues and policies for events and organisations. She is currently undertaking research at the University of Warwick for the Mitigation and Adjustment for Doctoral Education (MADE) project which explores reasonable adjustments and mitigating circumstances for doctoral students.
Beatrix Livesey-Stephens
Beatrix (Bea) Livesey-Stephens is a games industry researcher and part of Disabled Students UK.
Bea is an MPhil student at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, where she is currently writing her thesis on player calibration in analogue roleplaying games. Bea employs a Crip framework to both her research and her personal life as a multiply-disabled person, and she works within accessibility spheres in the games industry and beyond.
Nikki Adebiyi
Nikki Adebiyi is a writer, activist and part of Disabled Students UK.
Nikki is a social entrepreneur who uses her lived experience to empower others. Drawing from her personal journey of overcoming anxiety and depression alongside her studies and career, in 2020 Nikki launched Bounce Black, a platform through which she advocates for the workplace and wellbeing needs of Black professionals. With steadfast commitment to driving impactful change, Nikki fearlessly champions diversity, equity, justice, and inclusion, earning recognition on Women Beyond the Box’s 2023 Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women list.
Book your free space at one of our six CPD Revolution live events
Added Value
Important networking opportunity
A chance to reconnect with colleagues, software partners as well as discussing important industry, business or even personal news! We look forward to reconnecting with you all.
Why should you attend?
- CPD certificate for the sessions attended.
- Important ATSP & AT updates.
- Industry specific engaging and informative keynotes.
- Free licences for CPD Rev partners’ software.
