MRU EDIA events
Inclusion Week
March 17 - 21, 2025
Inclusion Week serves as a catalyst for important conversations and education on inclusion and belonging. This year’s theme centres around MRU’s ‘Good Human’ campaign, inviting our community to engage in meaningful dialogue and action towards building a more inclusive future.
Join us for interactive sessions that provide transformative learning experiences and practical tools for inclusion.
Reflections from MRU Inclusion Week 2024
Inclusion Week 2024 featured 25 presentations with 40 presenters across 5 days, including MRU students, employees and community members. Student voices were central, with 20 student speakers among the presenters who shared their ideas. 594 members of the MRU community registered to attend.
“It brings people together to start conversations and to educate themselves or others on important topics. As inclusion and empowerment are an ongoing journey with no endpoint and Inclusion Week provided a space for that, it is an event that is a part of the journey!”
“Dr. Adesola's session really emphasized the need to be adaptive in teaching and researching roles. He said EDIA is an ongoing process and that resonated with me. I have not heard a lot of EDIA practices in the teacher/researcher role, only the community advocate role, so it was great to hear.”
“I loved learning the differences between ableism and disablism, as I hadn't really considered those two things before. I also found the ADHD presentation to be very helpful (and noticed a huge number of employees that found it exciting to be able to talk about neurodivergence from their own perspective, when so many staff are neurodivergent). Perhaps this is a good clue that staff would like to participate in conversations about how it affects their lives, in addition to how to help students.”
“Inclusion Week provided a safe environment for specific topics and conversations to be had. Without Inclusion Week, some presentations may not have been created and shared so it opened up that space…”