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Week 6: Learning Community Newsletter
Posted on 18 March 2024
Hi everybody. This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week. There are some great events happening on campus that I recommend you check out. Otherwise I hope you are enjoying the last week before the break!
The Politics Coffee Morning is also running as usual on Wednesday from 09:30 - 11:00 in the Politics Reception. I look forward to seeing you there for a chill start to the day and a chance to catch up before the break.
Last but not least, if you are a final year student I do recommend checking out the Careers service final year support pages. It looks like they have some useful information there.
John Evemy (Learning Community Officer)
Events
Crip Camp - film screening
Monday 18 March
6.15pm to 8.15pm, LMB/002
Out of the darkness and into the light: a summer camp empowers teenagers with disabilities to be leaders in a civil rights movement for equality. A story that everyone should know, to understand how far we've come and what more there is to do to recognise equality for people with disabilities. An inspirational journey that demonstrates the power of what we can all do together.
Professor Daphne Halikiopoulou - Discussing the rise of the European far-right
Tuesday 19th March
19:00, P/L/005
Join PolSoc and our own Professor Daphne Halikiopoulou for this week's Cheese and Wine Night. Professor Halikiopoulou will be discussing her work on the rise of the European far-right.
The Inequality of Wealth, Why it Matters and How to Fix it - a talk by Liam Byrne MP
Thursday 21 March
6.30pm to 7.30pm,
Join Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology - University of York and Liam Byrne, Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, for a fascinating discussion about his new book, The Inequality of Wealth, Why it Matters and How to Fix it.
In this new book, former Treasury Minister Liam Byrne explains why wealth inequality has grown so fast in recent years; warns how it threatens our society, economy and politics; shows where economics has got it wrong – and lays out a path back to common sense, with five practical ways to rebuild an old ideal: the wealth-owning democracy.