Resources

What to Learn Next

Recommend other chapters in The Turing Way book that readers should read

• cm-lay-summaries contains information and guidance on writing plain language summaries that can help guide the development of your plain language resources

• Organising a Conference contains a checklist and general guidance for organizing a conference which supplements this chapter if you are planning a longer or multi-day event

• Tools for Collaboration contains suggestions and recommendations for tools that can help with task management, collaborative note taking, live polls, and surveys which can be used to support your event

• Guidelines for Remote Collaboration provides guidance on running remote meetings and has recommendations that can help shape an online or remote event held for people with lived experience

• Organising Remote Meetings contains checklists of tasks for organizing meetings which should be read in addition to the accessible meeting section of this chapter

• Challenges faced during Hybrid Collaboration outlines some of the challenges that come with organizing hybrid events which can impact the accessibility and engagement in planned events

• Chairing Events covers the duties an event chair would have at a range of different events. This section will be useful guidance to provide chairs and moderators with at your event.

• Valuing Diversity and Differences has suggestions for how to establish a strong and supportive collaborative environment which will help to frame the planning stages of your inclusive event

Additional Resources

These resources cannot (and should not) replace working with members of your specific community to plan and host events.

Resources on Public Involvement and Engaging people with lived experience in research and/or public policy

• NHS Guide to Patient and Public Participation: Involving Patients and Public in Event Planning and Delivery

• UK Standards for Public Involvement in Research

• Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland: Engaging people with lived experience best practice, challenges, and opportunities

• NIHR Imperial BRC Patient Experience Research Center (PERC): A Rough Guide to Public Involvement

• Imperial College London: Public Involvement Resource Hub

• For Equity: Resource List

• National Institute for Social Health and Care Research: Public involvement in NHS, health and social care research

• World Health Organization: Nothing for Us, Without Us: listening and learning from people with lived experience

• NHS Guide to patient and public participation: Planning for participation

• DARE UK: Public Involvement and Engagement (PIE) Guidelines for DARE UK Projects

• PEDRI: Public Involvement and Engagement Best Practice Draft Standards for the use of data for Research and Statistics

• Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC): Guidance and tools for public involvement

• World Health Organization: framework for meaningful engagement of people living with non-communicable diseases, and mental health and neurological conditions

• My Voice Matters - a guide for people who want to share their lived experience

• NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands: Engagement, Involvement & Co‑Production

• Public Engagement with Science A guide to creating conversations among publics and scientists for mutual learning and societal decision-making

• Citizen’s Advice: How to run focus groups

• Guidelines for Conducting a Focus Group

Community-Specific Accessibility Resources

Deaf and Hard of Hearing

• Sign Solutions: How to plan a conference with event interpretation for Deaf people

• Royal National Institute for Deaf People: Make your meetings deaf aware

• (UK only) Action Deafness Interpreting: British Sign Language Interpreter Services

• Working with sign language interpreters for events

Autism

• Autistica Advocacy: A Guide to Accessible Event Planning

• National Autism Society: A quick, easy guide to holding an autism-friendly event

Planning Accessible Events

• Creating Accessible Events

• Make Things Accessible: Running Accessible Events

• Disabled Equality Scotland: How to organize an Inclusive and Accessible Event

• University College London’s Tips / Checklist for making events accessible

• University of British Columbia Accessible and Inclusive Event Planning

• University of York: Inclusive and Accessible Events: Good Practice Guidance

• Equality and Human Rights Commission: Engaging with Disabled People An Events Planning Guide

• Independent Living Institute: Holding Meetings

• Making in-person events accessible

Planning Inclusive Events

• Journal Article: Joo et. al., 2022 Ten simple rules to host an inclusive conference

• Creating Inclusive Conferences for Academics with Caring Responsibilities

• Mozilla Event Guidance: Planning Participatory, Accessible, and Inclusive conference sessions

• Mozilla Event Guidance: How to plan a session

• World Cafe Design Principles

Venue Accessibility Guidance

• Shaping our Lives: Venue accessibility checklist

• Shaping our Lives: Venue accessibility infographic

• Accessible Toilets: The world of accessible toilets

• Creating Accessible Dining Spaces

Hosting Online Accessible Events

• University of Oxford: Making online events accessible

• Royal National Institute for Deaf People: Guidance on how to use accessibility features on video conferencing apps

• Shaping Our Lives: Throwing away the rulebook: Five things you should consider when planning interactive online events, to make them more inclusive

Creating Accessible Communications

• UK Government Civil Service: Dos and don’ts on designing for accessibility

• MetaDocencia’s Accessibility Profiles for developing accessible content.

• Ability Net: How to make documents accessible

• Accessible Computing: Are text-only web pages an accessible alternative?

• Email Accessibility: 17 Best Practices You Need to Follow

• Harvard University: Designing Presentations for readability

• University of Kent: Make documents and text accessible

• University of Kent: Make presentations accessible

• University of Colorado: Understanding PDF Accessibility

• Easy Read by Disability Equality Scotland

• Accessibility and assisted digital: Understanding WCAG 2.20

Example Accessibility Guides

• Accessibility Guide for InterPride’s Annual General Meeting & World Conference in San Diego

• Atlanta Pride: Accessibility Guide

Further Reading

• The 7 Principles of Universal Design

• (Book) The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker