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  • Discovery Academic Taster Day

  •  Session Details

    📆 Dates: 8 April 2025
    📌 Location: Glamorgan Building, Cathays Campus, Cardiff University.
    🕔 Time: 9:15-14:45


    🔎 The Discovery Academic Taster Day is for autistic and neurodivergent young people who want to get an insight into the sorts of things you can study at university. There will be taster sessions with academics and ambassadors from a range of subject areas. Lunch is provided.

    The information you submit as part of this application form will tell us more about you. In the event of more applications than available places, priority will be given to individuals who are applying for university this year (to start in September 2025). We may also consider our eligibility criteria when allocating places.

    If you have any questions, please contact outreach@cardiff.ac.uk.

     

  • Privacy information

    This privacy information supplements the Widening Participation data protection notice, which explains how we comply with data protection legislation. The information below provides some detail on what we will do with your application response. 

    If you have any questions about how your data will be used, please contact the team at outreach@cardiff.ac.uk.

    This application will be used to ascertain your eligibility for the Discovery Academic Taster Day and we will contact you, should you gain a place. We will also use information for evaluating our activities, monitoring their effectiveness, and to see whether our participants go on to study in Higher Education. This data will also inform research which helps us ensure we are interacting with a wide range of students.

    Data and information used for evaluation and reporting purposes will be anonymised should it be shared or published. Personal data collected in this form will be retained for 1 year after the event.

  • Please complete this form with a parent, guardian or carer.  The form has 2 parts:

    Section 1: About the participant. This tells us more information about you, including emergency contacts.

    Section 2: Access information and code of conduct.  This includes medical, accessibility and safeguarding information and our code of conduct.

     

  • Section 1: About the participant

  • Who should complete this form?

    For participants under the age of 18, this form MUST be completed together with and signed by a parent/guardian.

  • Participant details

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  • Participant details

  • Emergency contacts

    Please provide information about your emergency contacts, these are typically your parents, guardians or carers.

  • Section 2 - Access information and code of conduct

    Please fill in each question in as much detail as possible.

  • Medical, accessibility and safeguarding information

    The following mandatory information MUST BE COMPLETED as attendance at this event requires Widening Participation staff or third parties contracted by Widening Participation to take loco parentis responsibility for participants under 18 years of age. Where appropriate, please provide additional information.

  • Additional Information

    To help us best shape our programmes to meet the backgrounds of our participants, please answer the following questions.

  • Subject Information

  • Travel

  • Code of Conduct

    Please view the Code of Conduct for young people on our programmes. You are expected to adhere to this at all times. If you have any questions please email outreach@cardiff.ac.uk.

  • Use of photographs and films

    The Widening Participation team would like to take photographs and videos at our events for marketing and evaluation purposes.

    Once complete, images, recordings and films may be distributed across our digital platforms (including but not limited to: YouTube, Twitter (X), Instagram) as well as projected/shown as part of marketing, events and evaluations. Images can be considered personal data under data protection legislation and our legal basis for processing such images is legitimate interest.

    I understand that:

    • The images/recordings will be held securely;

    • The images/recordings will be the copyright of the University and any other intellectual property which arises in the images/recordings will also belong to the University;

    • I can request a copy of these images/recordings at any time;

    • I can ask the University to stop using my images/recordings at any time, in which case they will not be used in future publications but may continue to appear in publications already in circulation.

  • Images/video/audio are useful in promoting and reporting on our projects.  However you do not have to give permission to be accepted onto the programme.

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