Workshops

Workshop choices include:

Charles Malcolm-Brown, Mountain Trust

Charles Malcolm-Brown is the Chairman and founder (ten years ago) of the Mountain Trust. A former academic, he taught political science at Essex, Cambridge and elsewhere and has advised around five of the last eight Nepali Prime Ministers on democratic, economic and educational policies. He has published material on Marxism, the British Election Studies and helped design politics degrees. By day, he is Deputy Chairman of the Dixon International Group Ltd.

This talk focuses on a five year experiment into radio-based education in Nepal – and its portents for beneficial impacts across the ‘Developing World’. It also addresses the issues of scaling-up from an abstract idea to create practical regional, national and international impacts.

Steve Fleming, Kick4Life

Steve Fleming is Co-founder of Kick4Life, a multi-award winning Sport for Development initiative in Lesotho, Southern Africa. He is author of ‘Eleven: Stories of Development through Football’, which demonstrates how sport is being used around the world to adress a range of development issues.

His workshop will be titled ‘What’s the score? An introduction to Sport Development.’ Can sport really make a difference and if so how? What are the key ingredients of a successful sports based development-projet? What role does and should the sports industry play? How can you get involved? This interactive session will draw on examples from the field, and the latest thinking from the sector, to explore these questions around the role of sport as a tool for social development.

 

Mike Freedman, Population Matters

Mike Freedman is a writer and filmmaker based in London, England. For the past year, he has been researching, writing and filming a documentary, Critical Mass, about the impact of human population growth and consumption on the planet and on human psychology.

His presentation will be called Population 101: A Population Primer, and will be an overview of the interlocking environmental, political, social and economic issues related to a world with 7 billion people in it, on the way to 9 billion in 2050.

 

Engineers Without Borders, The Eco-House Initiative

Title: Social aspects of Slum Redevelopment

So development; it’s about providing people with a better quality of life, right? Join the Eco-House Initiative to examine how it is not what you provide, but how you provide it that really counts. Work as a team as you enter the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador, where 200 people need relocating from an urban slum on the brink of collapse. You are responsible for ensuring the future of its inhabitants and you must use a varied array of information to develop a plan for the future infrastructure and long term sustainability of the new settlement.

 

Andrea Cornwall, Pathways

Andrea Cornwall is a political anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of democracy, citizen participation, participatory research, gender and sexuality. She has worked on topics ranging from understanding women’s perspectives on family planning, fertility and sexually transmitted infection in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, public engagement in UK regeneration programs, the quality of democratic deliberation in new democratic spaces in Brazil, the use and abuse of participatory appraisal in Kenya, domestic workers’ rights activism in Brazil and sex workers’ rights activism in India.