Events Calendar by Lawbore™

"Come join us for the Kay Everett Memorial Lecture at SOAS University of London, in partnership with Wilsons LLP! This event honours the legacy of SOAS alumna and lawyer, Kay Everett. This year, we are proud to announce that our speaker is Frances Webber, and her lecture will be followed by a brief response by SOAS academics. There will also be a presentation of the Kay Everett Memorial Prize for the best SOAS Masters dissertation written on a human rights theme. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception."

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2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Richard Nobles and David Schiff’s landmark book, Understanding Miscarriages of Justice: Law, The Media and the Inevitability of Crisis. To celebrate this milestone, the Queen Mary School of Law Criminal Justice Centre is pleased to announce a one-day conference, scheduled for 28th May 2025.

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Something slightly different for you here! This is a part of the 'Lawgivers in Political Imaginations' series by Professor Melissa Lane at Gresham College.

For many modern thinkers, the lawgiver has been important as a founding figure of civic identity and cultural values. Rousseau analysed the legacies of Solon and Lycurgus, believing in the need for a lawgiver to make a true social contract possible. By contrast, Nietzsche felt it necessary to seek a lawgiver in history who was also a poet and prophet. This lecture uses their perspectives and others to explore how the figure of the lawgiver has encapsulated key debates in modern political philosophy.

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In this public lecture, Professor Leach Scully will present some key ideas from her forthcoming monograph, Incorporated: Ethics and Experience in Transplantation (OUP), which draws upon her own experience as a recipient of a donated liver to offer a fresh examination of the ethical landscape of organ donation and recipientship in the UK. Her account centres a patient experience in a way that challenges many dominant assumptions regarding organ donation. There will be short responses to the lecture from: Professor Havi Carel (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol), Dr Barny Hole (Bristol Medical School), and Dr Bonnie Venter (Law School, University of Bristol).

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In this public lecture, Professor Leach Scully will present some key ideas from her forthcoming monograph, Incorporated: Ethics and Experience in Transplantation (OUP), which draws upon her own experience as a recipient of a donated liver to offer a fresh examination of the ethical landscape of organ donation and recipientship in the UK. Her account centres a patient experience in a way that challenges many dominant assumptions regarding organ donation. There will be short responses to the lecture from: Professor Havi Carel (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol), Dr Barny Hole (Bristol Medical School), and Dr Bonnie Venter (Law School, University of Bristol).

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In 1603, plague struck London. Theatres were closed, public gatherings were banned, and the people of London took to their homes. Or…most of them did. Dr Lucy Holehouse from Royal Holloway, University of London, shows how the London livery companies’ 1603 private entertainments provide insight into the ways ‘tradition’ has historically been used to circumvent restrictive laws in epidemics.

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Arrests are fundamental features of most legal systems. They are the basic mechanism by which a person is brought into the criminal (and sometimes civil) legal process. But we know relatively little about them. What makes an arrest different to an assault or a kidnapping? How do arrestees and arrestors understand arrests differently? Is an arrest an event or a process? When does it start, when is it over, and what happens if it fails?

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This international, inter-institutional conference organised in association with INTERPOL and hosted by Derby University, in partnership with Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Portsmouth University, aims to explore, discuss and investigate the phenomena of modern slavery and human trafficking, providing scholars, practitioners, law enforcement and policymakers with a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the evolution and features of modern slavery and human trafficking, the victims of these phenomena, the identity and typology of the entities involved in these phenomena, and the challenges that face stakeholders in the fight against these phenomena. 

If you're interested in attending, please complete the following online form no later than 30 May 2025.

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During our Postgraduate Open Evening you will learn more about our postgraduate courses and discover all the benefits of studying at City, University of London. Our spring Open Evening on Wednesday 4 June 2025 provides you with the perfect opportunity to get a taste of our campus and what it's like to study with us.

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Sir Matthew Nicklin was appointed a Justice of the High Court in October 2017. He is chair of the Transparency and Open Justice Panel, which was created by the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales in 2024.

This event is an initiative of the Courts and Tribunals Observers Network, supported by the Sheila Kitzinger Programme at Green Templeton College.

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Something slightly different for you here! This is a part of the 'Lawgivers in Political Imaginations' series by Professor Melissa Lane at Gresham College.

How have lawgivers featured in modern revolutions? This lecture considers key moments in revolutions, including seventeenth-century Britain, eighteenth-century France and (what would become) the United States, and twentieth-century Iran. The appeal to lawgivers (including ancient ones from many cultures) in revolutionary visions and in consolidating new constitutions is a striking feature of modern politics.

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Join us at The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn for an interactive session that will explore the evolving landscape of diversity at the Bar, highlighting progress made through initiatives such as Bridging the Bar (BTB) and the Griffin Access Programme (GAP), while also addressing the challenges that remain.

The panel will seek to exhibit a moving picture from the perspective of a student to a Judge. This will aim to give attendees an insight into differing experiences of D&I at the Bar and what underrepresentation looks like.

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UCL’s Legal History Research Group (LHRG) is pleased to host presentations of recent research in Early Modern English Legal History.
This workshop comprises presentations by: Dr Joanna McCunn (Bristol) and Dr David Foster (UCL).

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How have lawgivers featured in modern revolutions?

This lecture considers key moments in revolutions, including seventeenth-century Britain, eighteenth-century France and (what would become) the United States, and twentieth-century Iran.

The appeal to lawgivers (including ancient ones from many cultures) in revolutionary visions and in consolidating new constitutions is a striking feature of modern politics.

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Join the University of Greenwich for a half-day symposium bringing together scholars working on assisted reproduction, including and beyond surrogacy, to discuss what the Law Commissions' recommendations for surrogacy could mean for the future regulation of reproductive technologies. Experts will provide insights into the Law Commissions’ Report and what it may represent for the future regulation of, for example, donor conception, egg freezing, ectogestation and uterus transplantation.

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The Centre of European Law, King’s College London, is delighted to host this year’s European Lawyers Assembly, taking place on the 5th of June.

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Over three-quarters of disabled students prefer not to share information about their disability with potential employers. This hesitation often prevents them from requesting the support they need to succeed in the recruitment process and, in some cases, leads to rejection.

Drawing on research into the topic of openness this workshop will help participants understand the challenges disabled students face regarding disclosure, explore how these concerns can be addressed, and equip them to guide students on when and how to share information with employers.

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The Centre of European Law, King’s College London, is delighted to host this year’s European Lawyers Assembly, taking place on the 5th of June.

If you are a Mid-Career Researcher working on EU law, and would like to give a paper during this year’s Assembly, please send a 500 words abstract to lawcentres@kcl.ac.uk with a CC to oana.stefan@kcl.ac.uk by the 9th of May. Please quote European Lawyers Assembly in the title.

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The conference will explore how a career in housing law can be used to achieve a meaningful impact, through our ‘day-to-day’ practice and beyond. We will also be considering important upcoming developments such as the Renters Rights Act 2025(?) and discussing how housing lawyers have played a vital role in bringing those changes about. Attendees will also have an opportunity to network with housing lawyers and others working in the sector at various stages of their career.

Paid tickets only but its onlt £5.04

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What are legal principles? Where do they come from? What is their role in legal argument? What challenges and difficulties do they pose for jurisprudence? A principle may be a norm—a discrete individual norm like a particular rule or standard. It may be a thread that holds several legal positions together, making sense of them as a “principled” whole. A legal principle may be a way of describing or characterizing an entire legal system. It may be the declaration of some grand moral position. Or it may embody a whole theory of government, as when we talk about the principle of the separation of powers.

This lecture series will consider difficulties and complexities of all these various kinds, showing that the bare idea of a legal principle offers much less to jurisprudence than some legal theorists have supposed. Still, it is worth exploring their domain in as much as they help constitute the environment in which other less question-begging forms of legal reasoning are developed.

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The ‘rule of law’ has long been a fundamental principal of good government, a tradition in England which largely stems from the Magna Carta in 1215. In an era of volatility, in which shifting societal and geopolitical norms and rapid technological advancement seem to challenge the long-accepted values of democratic societies, politicians and critics from all sides frequently appeal to the ‘rule of law’ as justification for their views and actions.

In this Magna Carta Lecture, former Attorney General for England and Wales, The Rt Hon Victoria Prentis KC, explores why adherence to the ‘rule of law’ still matters when the goalposts feel like they are shifting, and how we can grasp this nebulous concept to ensure that democratic societies emerge stronger from a turbulent period.

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The Gray's Inn Reading is an annual lecture delivered by Britain's leading legal professionals, held in partnership with Gray's Inn. Join Sir Howard Morrison KC for the lecture this summer.

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This event will bring together experts from the UK and beyond to share insights, evidence, and innovative solutions for addressing rising housing costs, barriers to homeownership, and homelessness. By learning from successful approaches elsewhere, we aim to uncover ideas that could help shape a stronger, fairer housing system in the UK.

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Drawing upon research conducted in the Caribbean, this paper will explore the multitude of ways in which contemporary ID systems, while promoting social and financial inclusion, can also exclude marginalised and vulnerable populations from essential state services, voting rights and healthcare. The talk will explore the concept of ‘statelessness-like experiences’ (Hayes de Kalaf, 2025) to consider how people can experience exclusion in ways that do not always fit comfortably within the legal parameters of citizenship deprivation, yet can have an overwhelmingly detrimental impact on an individual’s wellbeing and legal personhood. The research presented will highlight how, for the people who experience contemporary ID systems, historical forms of racial and ethnic exclusion remain very much embedded within new technological infrastructures and state architectures. 

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A media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications.

It may not be Big Brother (yet), but the state is watching you—watching all of us, in fact, systematically intercepting our private communications and putting them to work in its own interests. In Interception, a media genealogy of the surveillance state at its most intimate, Bernard Keenan investigates the emergence of this practice as a governmental power and the secret role it has played in the development of communication systems and law. His book exposes the complex, largely obscure history of a covert and fundamental connection between the secret powers of the state and the means by which we communicate our everyday lives.

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What are legal principles? Where do they come from? What is their role in legal argument? What challenges and difficulties do they pose for jurisprudence? A principle may be a norm—a discrete individual norm like a particular rule or standard. It may be a thread that holds several legal positions together, making sense of them as a “principled” whole. A legal principle may be a way of describing or characterizing an entire legal system. It may be the declaration of some grand moral position. Or it may embody a whole theory of government, as when we talk about the principle of the separation of powers.

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11 June 2025 - 12 June 2025, 9:00AM - 5:30PM

The topic for the 2025 Hart Workshop is Regulating the Global Movement of Care. The Workshop will seek to consider the role of law in managing the global movement of care, broadly defined to include healthcare, social care, domestic care, and unpaid care. Immigrant labour has long been the bedrock of the care systems of many countries in the world and law is intimately involved in ordering the movement of care and care workers.  The Workshop invites participants to explore the numerous distinct involvements of the law in this process of movement, such as by creating precarity through the imposition of stringent immigration or regulatory requirements, by providing migrant carers and their supporters with a tool to fight oppression, or by defining relationships between migrant carers and their broader kinship networks. The Workshop will be organised around four themes – precarity, advocacy, protection, and kinship networks – and will provide an opportunity to explore the legal regulation of care through the lens of a variety of disciplines, including history, anthropology, politics, sociology, criminology, and creative arts.

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What are legal principles? Where do they come from? What is their role in legal argument? What challenges and difficulties do they pose for jurisprudence? A principle may be a norm—a discrete individual norm like a particular rule or standard. It may be a thread that holds several legal positions together, making sense of them as a “principled” whole. A legal principle may be a way of describing or characterizing an entire legal system. It may be the declaration of some grand moral position. Or it may embody a whole theory of government, as when we talk about the principle of the separation of powers.

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You’re invited to The Food Waste Hackathon sponsored by Gather and Gather, taking place at the University of London on Thursday 12th June. 

You will have the opportunity contribute your own ideas to the food waste issue, work with other students from across disciplines, and develop your employability skills in a challenge-based setting. You will receive a certificate for participation and a LinkedIn endorsement. You will also get the opportunity to present your ideas to a panel of guest judges, including experts from various sectors.  

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Legal Action Group's annual Housing Law Conference on 13th June 2025 promises an exciting and diverse programme covering the latest developments in housing law. Please join us for this one day in-person conference which will be held at BPP University.

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We are honoured to announce an exceptional evening bringing together three ground-breaking legal figures: Dr Síofra O’Leary, former President of the European Court of Human Rights; Dame Siobhan Keegan, Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland; and The Rt Hon The Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill DBE, the first Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales.

This is a rare opportunity to hear from three women who have each made legal history, breaking centuries-old barriers at the very highest levels of the judiciary.

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Join us for the launch of Diverse Voices in Health Law and Ethics: Important Perspectives (BUP, 2025), a textbook that has the ambition to redefine the field of health law and ethics by foregrounding inclusion, equity, and social justice in its teaching.

This event explores how health law and bioethics curricula can better reflect the lived experiences of marginalised communities- centering voices often excluded from traditional teaching. With chapters on core topics like abortion, negligence, and public health, contributors challenge dominant narratives and expose the legal production of health inequalities. This book is an essential resource for anyone committed to building inclusive and critical approaches to health law and ethics.

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In the early medieval period, we can observe the rise of ethically defined legal pluralism. This meant that in the courts of the Frankish kingdom, Franks, Romans, Alamans, Bavarians, Burgundians, Lombards, and members of further ethnic groups had to be treated according to their respective laws. In contrast to recent scholarship, which has emphasized the fluidity of ethnic and other categories of distinction, the lecture proceeds from the observation that law in this period tended to simplify ethnic categories and make them as unambiguous as possible, because otherwise it was not possible to clarify the legal identity and status of an individual. On this basis, it will describe the rise of ethically defined legal pluralism, discuss some of the more theoretical and practical problems inherent in it, and analyse attempts to solve potential norm conflicts arising from ethically defined legal pluralism.

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At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.

Our postgraduate online information sessions are scheduled throughout the year and range from subject/course specific sessions to general advice ones – all designed to give you further guidance about life at City, student experience and support available to you.

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June 19 · 9am - June 20 · 4pm 

Criminal justice and legal responses to sexual violence have long featured in academic and policy debates. Yet, despite a raft of substantive and procedural reforms, there continues to be evidence of steep attrition in sexual offences cases, as well as secondary victimisation experienced by complainants.

This two-day conference is dedicated to an in-depth multi-jurisdictional discussion of the ongoing complexities surrounding reform in this area. It will bring together scholars and practitioners engaged in cutting edge research to reflect upon recent progress, share their expertise, and discuss best practice.

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Judicial dialogue is a concept that has gained academic and institutional attention for decades. There are various forms of cooperation conducive to judicial dialogue, including judges’ associations, as well as international organisations. Entire systems are premised on such dialogue, such as the European Union, whose preliminary ruling procedure has helped the development of a legal order as well as the socialisation of national judges thereto. Whilst many studies are dedicated to demonstrating the consequences of judicial dialogue, or the way in which judicial dialogue occurs in various fora, there is little systematic inquiry with regards to how to make such judicial dialogue effective for the good development of the law and promoting rule of law values.

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Judicial dialogue is a concept that has gained academic and institutional attention for decades. There are various forms of cooperation conducive to judicial dialogue, including judges’ associations, as well as international organisations. Entire systems are premised on such dialogue, such as the European Union, whose preliminary ruling procedure has helped the development of a legal order as well as the socialisation of national judges thereto. Whilst many studies are dedicated to demonstrating the consequences of judicial dialogue, or the way in which judicial dialogue occurs in various fora, there is little systematic inquiry with regards to how to make such judicial dialogue effective for the good development of the law and promoting rule of law values.

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• How do past decisions influence today’s criminal justice policy and practice?
• What decisions being made now will shape the choices of future generations?
• How does our anticipation of what the future may bring affect our decisions about crime and justice in the present?

Join three leading criminologists – Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann and Theo Kindynis – as they discuss these and related questions with our Director, Richard Garside. Using the metaphor of ‘ghosts’ to capture the way that present-day policy-making is ‘haunted’ by past decisions and future expectations, Fiddler, Linnemann and Kindynis offer fresh ways of understanding current policy dilemmas, and why our current approaches to crime and punishment seem to rely so much on older, failed experiments.

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At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.

Our postgraduate online information sessions are scheduled throughout the year and range from subject/course specific sessions to general advice ones – all designed to give you further guidance about life at City, student experience and support available to you.

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Join leaders from bar associations and legal alliances across the globe to explore:

1. how climate change is impacting legal practice and lawyers’ professional responsibilities;
2. how bar associations and legal alliances are supporting lawyers to build climate resilient practices, and
3. what more is needed for lawyers to become true champions of sustainability.

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Despite frequent calls to integrate the study of law into broader scholarship on the ancient world, the study of law and legality often remains isolated. This seminar series, ‘Performing normativity in the ancient world’, seeks to move away from the traditional, narrow conception of ‘capital-L’ Law and hopes instead to focus on the performance, construction, negotiation, and enforcement of regimes of normativity across various spheres of human action by encouraging participants to explore a wider array of consolidated arrangements of “discourses, norms, practices, and institutions” (Duve, 2023) and their functions within the societies in which they emerged and operated. These spheres might include, but ought not be limited to, magic, religion, politics, theatre, literature, and art.

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Debate on legislative expression has long been preserved for the drafting academic and practitioners. But in doing so they have failed the super goal of producing good laws. And they now need to confess that they do not have the answers to everything and collaborate with linguistics to learn from, and borrow, know-how, experience, and resulting successes. 
Indeed, there are inherent difficulties in the drafting of legislation. The drafter is not a mere scribe, and drafting is affected by the environment of the Parliamentary (or legislative) process.
If an instrumental position is taken, the background can be seen to include recognition of a problem, determination of objectives, and the choice of means for their achievement. 

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The law often seeks to keep sound contained and fixed, but sound has a way of leaking out. From the acoustic design of courtrooms to rules of evidence and norms of decorum in trial, the law determines what should be heard and what should not, in legal process as well as in everyday life. Sound can be an evanescent and unruly object, however, evading or penetrating our ears in unexpected ways. As a result, the law applies what I refer to as fictions of hearing – assumptions, ideas, and rules about sound that aim to manage it, but don’t always succeed. Through three examples, I show how such fictions of hearing clash with the human perception of sound. These examples reveal the limitations of legal imagination and understanding of sound and listening.

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The White House’s effort to jolt the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright citizenship provision away from its longstanding status quo raises not just a constitutional law question, but a foundational question, sounding in political morality, as to the scope and nature of our polity. And of course, there is the (hardly minor) matter of whether and why government officials who heap public condemnation on federal judges will comply with those judges’ ordinarily binding orders. This talk offers an overview of these and other changes, and asks: Is this a “real” moment of constitutional change in the United States? And if so, what is the new constitutional dispensation?

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The conference will explore how media law responds to those who make public allegations of wrongdoing and what impact those responses have on a range of media actors. It will examine a range of different recent media law developments – in privacy, breach of confidence, defamation, and contempt – and place those developments in their wider societal context (including the #metoo movement). The presenters are leading media law academics and practitioners from New Zealand, Australia, the United States and United Kingdom and, although the papers’ principal focus will be the law of England & Wales, a range of comparative perspectives will also be included.

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We need a new conversation about housing in the UK if we’re to build greater public support for the action needed to deliver quality homes for everyone.  That’s why Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Nationwide Foundation have been partnering with FrameWorks UK – to understand how people think about homes, and to research communications strategies that we can all use to reframe our communications.

Session Two: How to communicate the link between housing and poverty

A focus on how to frame communications to demonstrate the role that social and affordable housing plays in tackling poverty. This session looks at how to tell compelling stories about how these issues overlap.

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At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.

Our online events provide the perfect opportunity for you to find out more about our postgraduate courses and what it's like to study with us from the comfort of your own home. 

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We need a new conversation about housing in the UK if we’re to build greater public support for the action needed to deliver quality homes for everyone.  That’s why Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Nationwide Foundation have been partnering with FrameWorks UK – to understand how people think about homes, and to research communications strategies that we can all use to reframe our communications.

Session Three: How to build consensus for more homes 

A focus on how to frame communications so that we boost local support for building more homes in communities. This session will show you how to establish common ground and give people a reason to care.

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A paid event this time, but tickets for students are only £10. Worth if you are interested!

Please join Leigh Day for an afternoon conference covering topics with our inspiring speakers.

Followed by a drinks reception 5-7pm with guest speaker.

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Step inside the hidden world of MI5 and explore the extraordinary stories behind the security of a nation.

For the first time, MI5’s history will go on display to the public in a major new exhibition, made possible through an unprecedented partnership between the Security Service and The National Archives.

Explore the ever-changing world of espionage and security threats through original case files, photographs and papers, alongside the real equipment used by spies and spy-catchers over MI5’s 115-year history.

From counter-espionage and daring double-agents during the world wars, to chilling Cold War confessions and the counter-terrorism of recent times, this historic exhibition will take you behind the scenes of one of Britain’s most iconic institutions.

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We need a new conversation about housing in the UK if we’re to build greater public support for the action needed to deliver quality homes for everyone.  That’s why Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Nationwide Foundation have been partnering with FrameWorks UK – to understand how people think about homes, and to research communications strategies that we can all use to reframe our communications.

In this latest series, Sophie Gordon and Natalie Tate from Frameworks UK and Joseph Rowntree Foundation will share insights, guidance and tips, useful for anyone communicating about homes, and those with an interest in how we can build support for change. 

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