Refugee Education UK (REUK) are committed to a world where all refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people can access education, thrive in education, and use that education to create a hopeful brighter future. The Faculty of Social Sciences and the BREM network are delighted to offer academic and professional services colleagues this unique opportunity to participate in free REUK training as part of our efforts to bring down barriers within our institution to people taking sanctuary.

The training will take place over two sessions (one in person on campus and one online)

Session 1 (in person): Tuesday 31st October, 10am - 1pm, Room S2.77, followed by lunch

In this interactive, in person session REUK specialist staff will unpack common immigration statuses and the rights and entitlements that accompany these. Drawing on young people’s stories and experiences, we will explore young refugees' and asylum seekers' aspirations for Higher Education as well as the barriers they may encounter.

Session 2 (online): Thursday 2nd November, 10.30-11.30am - online (zoom link to follow)

The second session (online) will focus on finding solutions to some of the most common barriers experienced by young people and will aim to upskill you in the educational, financial and psychosocial support options for young asylum seekers and refugees as they seek to access and thrive in higher education. This session will allow you time and support to apply this knowledge to your role and context and learn from other participants.

The sessions will be delivered by Katie Barringer and Rosy Cockburn from REUK.

Katie Barringer leads REUK's Educational Progression team which encompasses the Higher Education, Further Education and Education Welcome programmes. She is also a member of the Senior Leadership Team at REUK and plays a wider role in REUK's mission, strategy development and governance. Prior to this role, Katie headed up the development of REUK's Educational Mentoring programmes across new locations in the UK, including the West Midlands.

Rosy Cockburn is a Higher Education Coordinator for REUK, supporting young people from across REUK's programmes to access university through advice sessions, case work and workshops. She also helps to facilitate a suite of scholarships provided by the Schwab and Westheimer Trust for young people with a background of forced migration who cannot access student finance due to their immigration status. Prior to joining the HE team, Rosy ran REUK’s mentoring programme in Birmingham.

Please register for this training using this form: Refugee Education training (warwick.ac.uk).

If you’d like to join the reading group on Robin McKenna’s Non-Ideal Epistemology please email Heather and Nadine.

The group will be Tuesday mornings 11-12 in FAB1.37. The group will start in week 2 and will run in weeks 2-5 and 7-10. Each week we will read one chapter (happily the book has eight chapters).

Everyone welcome, no specialist knowledge required.

Contact: Heather & Nadine

We can all contribute to a positive campus experience by developing the skills, knowledge, and confidence to be active bystanders and safely challenge unacceptable behaviours. Created with other students, this short online workshop explores what it means to uphold our shared Warwick values through practical examples and techniques.

Everyone is welcome! We follow a pre-read format, so please message sameer.bajaj@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.

Come to the Student Hub for a spooky coffee break with the Student Experience Team! We will bring some sweet treats, Halloween-themed activities, and ghastly law cases to explore! 🕵️ All Law students are welcome!

Gregory Moss (Hong Kong) – “From Identity to Ground: The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Hegel's Science of Logic"

To join via Teams click here

The Department of Economics is delighted to welcome David Stainforth to speak at our second Warwick Economics Lecture of the 2023/24 academic year.

Predicting Our Climate Future: What we know, what we don't know, and what we can't know

Date: Tuesday 31 October, Time: 6 - 7pm
Location: OC0.03

This event is for students and staff only and registration is required in order to attend.

Dr Eman Abdulla will introduce the speaker and chair the Q&A session.

About the Talk

David Stainforth will discuss his new book “Predicting Our Climate Future: what we know, what we don’t know, and what we can’t know” - how climate research is done and why you should trust some of its conclusions and distrust others. Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in both the physical and the social sciences. It requires us to question what we know and how we know it. The issue is important for society but the subject is young and history tells us that scientists can get things wrong before they get them right. How, then, can we judge what information is reliable and what is open to question? In this talk David will highlight the fundamental characteristics of climate change that make it a difficult issue to study. He will discuss the connections between the physical sciences and the economics of climate change as well as touching on the maths of complexity, the physics of climate, philosophical questions regarding the origins and robustness of knowledge, and the use of natural sciences and economics in building policy responses.

This will be followed by a drinks reception, where you will have the opportunity to meet the speaker.

About the Speaker

David Stainforth is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, and an Honorary Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Warwick. He carries out research on climate science, climate modelling, and their relationship with climate economics and policy. He focuses particularly on uncertainty analysis and on how academic assessments can better support decision making in the context of climate change.

Please note: Photography will be taking place at this event, which may be used for marketing purposes (e.g. promotional materials). By registering your attendance at this event, you are giving consent to be photographed, however if you do not wish to be photographed, please inform the photographer or a member of Economics staff on the day. You can withdraw your consent at any time via email to emily.wesley@warwick.ac.uk.

Registration

Please complete the following form with your details as registration is mandatory. Only register if you are going to attend.

Registration will close on Monday 30th October at midday.

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