ADCET UDL Symposium Gallery Presentation: Institutionalising UDL: Bottom Up Meets Top Down

Pre-recorded video

This presentation described a personal journey of advocacy for embracing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) across a University School to bridge a perceived gap between active promotion of Designing for Diversity principles at an Institution-wide level and implementation at the coalface.

Presenter

Dr Susan Hemsley is an Educational Designer in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. She reached this destination via undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Veterinary Science, then academia, followed by a sideways move into an educational support/design role with the Centre for Veterinary Education. She commenced her current role in 2022. Sue has a particular interest in UDL and is now leading the School of Chemistry’s efforts to realise its strategic goal of ‘Embracing Universal Design for Learning’ by collaboratively embedding UDL principles supporting inclusive, accessible education across all Units of Study.

(June 2025)