Saturday July 15 | 16:00 | Veranda, The Galmont Hotel

This panel will discuss the importance of a new unique short course for the screen industry on neurodiversity which was piloted by ACE at UCC and Screen Ireland in March 2022, why it’s important, and why now in particular.

Panelists: Host – Eleanor McSherry (Scriptwriter, Lecturer, Programme Designer/Coordinator ACE@UCC) Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Director of Operations & HR at TG4), Grainne Bennett (Screen Ireland, Skills Development Executive Creativity & Creative Collaboration), Lindsay Sedgwick (Author, Screenwriter, Creative Consultant) and Katarzyna Mazur (Build & 2 D rigging artist, comic maker, animator, character designer). 

This is a free event. Registration is required here.

About the course

This is a unique short course for the screen industry.  UCC is the first university in the world to run a course like this. It is a 12 week level 6 online course on ‘Continuing Professional Development Cert in Neurodiversity for the Screen Industry’, which was designed, with a neurodivergent film practitioner (& academic), Screen Ireland and University College Cork Adult Continuing Education – (ACE), delivered wholly online by a neurodivergent lecturing team.

Fee: €600, no matter where you are located. Additionally, if you are based in the Republic of Ireland there are a number of sponsored spaces available, please email me for further details. 

For further details on the course, please visit: https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace-ccpdns/