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Your Future webinar series - watch online for free

The Your Future webinar series has finished. However, if you're looking for information and support to help you decide what career is right for you, we've made all the webinars free to watch online. 

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Feel inspired, informed and confident about getting a job you love.

Feeling unsure about your future career? Our webinars will help you discover how deafness isn’t a barrier to getting a job you’d love.

Each month we focused on a different profession, inviting inspirational deaf role models to share their experiences.

We hope they'll leave you feeling inspired, informed and confident about taking your next steps. You may even discover a career you didn’t know existed!

Topics our deaf role models cover:  

  • what job they do 
  • how they got started 
  • challenges they’ve faced as a deaf person at work 
  • support they’ve received that has helped them to reach their potential
  • their career highlights and future goals.

Tap the headings below to find out more about each career and watch the recorded webinar: 

Our role models introduce themselves and share their experiences of working in business and finance, along with lots of useful information about how to advocate for yourself in the workplace, and how to get the right support.

  • Recorded in November 2022 
  • Recommended for deaf young people ages 13-25 
  • Duration 75 mins
  • BSL interpreter and captions available.

Meet our deaf role models

  • Toby Burton – Chief Financial and Operating Officer at Fastmarkets 
  • Andrew Belcher – Director of B.S.L Community 
  • Beth Hartley – Strategic Sourcing Manager at Sainsbury’s

Watch the webinar online

 

Our role models introduce themselves and share their experiences of working in Education, and how they ended up there.

  • Recorded in February 2022
  • Recommended for deaf young people ages 13-25
  • Duration 75 mins
  • BSL interpreter and captions available.

Meet our deaf role models

  • Dani Sive - Headteacher
  • Bengi Sirin – Teaching Assistant
  • Kate Rowley – Researcher/Lecturer
  • Liam McMulkin – Science Teacher

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Our role models introduce themselves and share their experiences of working in Healthcare, and how they ended up there.

  • Recorded in November 2021
  • Recommended for deaf young people ages 13-25
  • Duration 75 mins
  • BSL interpreter and captions available.

Meet our deaf role models

  • Sam Penney - Nurse
  • Nathan Barlow – Audiologist
  • Andrew Winters - Dentist 
  • John Donald – Cognitive Behavioural Therapist 

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Our role models introduce themselves and share their experiences of working in Engineering, and how they ended up there.

  • Recorded in October 2021
  • Recommended for deaf young people ages 13-25
  • Duration 80 mins
  • BSL interpreter and captions available.

Meet our deaf role models

  • Munya Ziyenge – Systems Engineer at Optek Systems
  • Kailey Firmin – Trainee Engineer at VolkerStevin
  • Oliver Kerr – Manufacturing Engineer at Peak Scientific.
  • Ifan Roberts - Inspector Engineer at Rolls Royce

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Our role models introduce themselves and share their experiences of working in music, and how they ended up there.

  • Recorded in September 2021
  • Recommended for deaf young people ages 13-25
  • Duration 60 mins
  • BSL interpreter and captions available.

Meet our deaf role models

  • Ruth Montgomery – Musician and Audiovisability Artistic Director
  • Troi Lee – DJ and Founder of Deaf Rave
  • Eloise Garland – Musician and Teacher (unfortunately Eloise lost signal during the webinar so didn’t get to complete her section)

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Our role models introduce themselves and share their experiences of working in drama, theatre and/or dance, and how they ended up there.

  • Recorded in July 2021
  • Recommended for deaf young people ages 13-25
  • Duration 70 minutes
  • BSL interpreter and captions available.

Meet our deaf role models

  • Dilara Earle – Youth Coordinator at Deafinitely Theatre
  • Billy Read – Dance Instructor and Choreographer
  • Stephanie Back – Access and Inclusion Manager at Taking Flight Theatre
  • Gabriella Leon – Actor, Writer and Theatre Maker

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Our role models introduce themselves and share their experiences of working at NDCS, and how they ended up there.

  • Recorded in June 2021
  • Recommended for deaf young people ages 13-25
  • Duration 80 mins
  • BSL interpreter and captions available.

Meet our deaf role models

  • Nathalie Koenig – NDCS BSL and Deaf Awareness Training Officer
  • Pip Johns – NDCS Advice and Guidance Officer
  • Louise Saunders – NDCS International Team Administrator
  • Munya Ziyenge – NDCS Volunteer Deaf Presenter, and works as an Engineer outside of NDCS
  • Alison Skinner – NDCS Priority Families Engagement Officer
  • Natasha Stones – NDCS Campaigns Support Assistant
  • Luke Collins-Hayes – NDCS Roadshow Officer

Watch webinar 1 online

Watch webinar 2 online