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Inspirational Series<br />
Schedule for<br />
Inspirational Series<br />
The Home Magazine 2018.<br />
INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES<br />
Manchester Met’s latest series features a range<br />
of speakers who have helped ignite social change<br />
and become leaders in their field. These talks<br />
will highlight important social issues and help<br />
inspire students and staff alike to challenge the<br />
status quo.<br />
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING THE SERIES:<br />
Develop awareness of social issues and how you<br />
can combat them.<br />
Cultivate confidence in yourself; do not allow<br />
prejudices to hold you back<br />
Become inspired by individuals who share similarities<br />
with yourself and have made a positive<br />
change.<br />
Understand that everyone has the opportunity<br />
and ability to be successful in their fields.<br />
Be conscious of the opportunities that are available<br />
to everyone<br />
LT1<br />
20/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
3 pm — 4pm<br />
LT1<br />
20/02/20<strong>19</strong><br />
4 pm — 5pm<br />
NONA MCDUFF OBE — INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES<br />
In 2017, Nona received an OBE for services to higher education. Nona is a panel member for the Government’s<br />
Teaching Excellence Framework panel which makes judgements on the shape of excellence in learning and<br />
teaching and student support in higher education. Nona has served on the ministerial Social Mobility Advisory<br />
Group, addressed the all – party parliamentary group on diversity in HE, sits on the advisory boards of<br />
two research projects and chairs the Higher Education Race Action Group which has over 300 members from<br />
institutions across the UK. Nona is the Director of Student Achievement at Kingston University.<br />
DR DEBORAH GABRIEL — INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES<br />
Dr Deborah Gabriel is a former journalist who has spent the last decade as an award-winning academic,<br />
achieving recognition both for her educational practice and research. She is currently based at Bournemouth<br />
University, where she lectures in politics, media and communication, specialising in social justice pedagogy<br />
and critical race pedagogy, teaching from a critical race/gender standpoint. Dr Gabriel specialises in qualitative<br />
– interpretative research using critical, transformative and emancipatory paradigms, heavily informed by<br />
Black feminism and critical race theory. She is the Founder and Director of Black British Academics, a project-oriented,<br />
consultancy-based network, focused on tackling racial inequality in higher education.<br />
Giulietta Ellman<br />
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