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We are pleased to extend an invitation to the UCL Humanitarian Summit to UCL IRDR members, associates and community. You are welcome to attend all or just part of this event. Please register via links below for the parts that you wish to attend. At this event, we plan to explore UCL interdisciplinary research, knowledge exchange, innovation and teaching activities that address humanitarian issues, and to emerge with a plan for new and expanded activities in this area. The particular humanitarian issues that we will explore are spaces of refuge, education, migration and health. We aim to identify how UCL can address the humanitarian challenges of today and tomorrow, and for the UCL community to work together towards this end.
A new UCL Humanitarian Institute, proposed and led by Peter Sammonds and Rosanna Smith of UCL IRDR, was awarded 2016-19 Provost Strategic Discretionary Funding. Our initial work to build and map the UCL community and activities in research, teaching, learning, innovation, and knowledge exchange in the humanitarian field will be rounded up with a UCL Humanitarian Summit on 22nd June 2017.
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Programme
09:00 – 09:20: Arrival and registration
09:20 – 09:30: Welcome address, Prof Peter Sammonds, Director, UCL Humanitarian Institute
09:30 – 11:00: Themed discussion on refugee self-reliance and infrastructure
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break in exhibition space
11:30 – 13:00: Themed discussion on humanitarian education and training
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break and networking in exhibition space
14:30 – 15:45: Humanitarian technological solutions workshop part 1
15:45 – 16:00: Coffee break in exhibition space
16:00 – 17:00: Humanitarian technological solutions workshop part 2
17:00 – 18:00: Break and registration for evening (in exhibition space)
18:00 – 19:30: Public Panel Discussion on Migration and Health
19:30 – 21:00: Reception, with refreshments and snacks served in the exhibition space.
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Themed Discussion Sessions
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Refugee Self-Reliance (9.30 – 11.00)
The aim of this session is to discuss and share UCL interdisciplinary research, knowledge exchange, partnerships and teaching activities that address humanitarian ethics, its discourse, its practices and challenges when dealing with refugee spaces, processes, geographies and geopolitics. In particular, the session wishes to tease out the complex encounters between refugees, city authorities, and humanitarian actors when dealing with different temporal perspectives, infrastructures and assistance regimes (e.g. encampment, urban sheltering, education services), as well as social stability and economic self-reliance.
Chair: Dr Camillo Boano, UCL DPU
Speakers:
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Geography, PI of the Refugee Hosts project) will reflect on the complex relationships between refugee and host communities in the Middle East, and the importance of interdisciplinary research, incl. with reference to UCL's Refuge in a Moving World research network.
- Ricardo Marten and Kayvan Karimi, to present the "Refugee Cities: the Actual Spaces of Migration” Project
- Estella Carpi, Fernando Espada, and Jessica Field, HAC/DPU partnership on Refugee Self-Reliance and Humanitarian Action in Urban Markets
- Giovanna Astolfo presenting DPU student engagement in Refugee Dwelling Practices in Italy.
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Humanitarian Education & Training (11:30-13:00)
This session will address, what should be the role of universities in educating and training students for humanitarian challenges and what specifically are the needs for global citizenship education for UCL students in the next 5 yeas and towards UCL 2034? It will address humanitarian issues in education, the skills that build resilience and how to engage with students to intervene to support others in crisis.
Speakers:
- Dr. Tejendra Pherali (Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development, IOE - Education, Practice & Society, UCL Institute of Education).
- James Laurie (Senior Education Adviser, Save the Children)
- Sébastian Hine (Education Research Adviser, Save the Children UK).
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Humanitarian Technological Solutions Workshop (14:30 – 17:00)
Register for this workshop via email to humanitarian-info@ucl.ac.uk
In this workshop, we aim to draw on the expertise of UCL researchers and our partners to identify key areas of humanitarian need, and to identify technological solutions that may address these needs or form building blocks to address these needs. We will underpin all discussion with a robust understanding and discussion of the challenges to be addressed, and will consider how existing technology might be redirected or adapted to meet these needs.
After an initial introduction to the workshop, we will break out into focus groups on:
- Spaces of refuge: health, wellbeing and infrastructure
- Thematic leader: Dr Elena Fiddian -Qasmiyeh (UCL Geography, PI of the Refugee Hosts project)
- Facilitator: Dr Mich Lampson (UCLC)
- Affordable healthcare
- Thematic leaders: John Gaffen and Rachel Cummings (Save the Children)
- Facilitator: Sarah Schubert (UCL IRDR)
- Technology to deliver education
- Thematic Leader: Dr Ben Abo (FEMA and University of Florida Health)
- Facilitator: Patrizia Duda (UCL IRDR)
- Migration: tracking migration, managing logistics, and allocating resources
- Theme Leader: tbc
- Facilitator: Alan Smith
Each focus group will comprise experts with a range of perspectives on the humanitarian challenge of the group theme and some experts on the types of technology that could be applied to that area. After some initial discussion to agree upon the issues to focus on, each group will brainstorm if and how different technologies might address these issues. The technologies can be simple or advanced, and can be new, old, adapted, or redirected, whatever best fits the problems posed. At the end of the discussion, the focus groups will reconvene into 1 workshop, reporting back to each other on the findings and action plan for each group.
If you would like to participate in this workshop, please email humanitarian-info@ucl.ac.uk providing your name, research area, and the focus group that you would like to join.
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Panel Discussion on Migration and Health (18:00 – 19:30)
This panel discussion will address migrant health challenges, addressing both within county and between country migration, in both the global north and south. It will include wide ranging issues such as disability, mental health, gender and violence, culture, religion, human rights and universal health coverage. It follows the UCL-Lancet Commission discussions on migration and health taking place at UCL and concludes the UCL Humanitarian Summit.
Chair: Professor Ibrahim Akubakar, Director, UCL Institute for Global Health
Panellists:
- Dr Fouad M. Fouad, Research Professor, American University of Beirut
- Dr Miriam Orcutt, Medical doctor and academic researcher, UCL Institute for Global Health
- Dr Poonam Dhavan, Migration Health Programme Coordinator, International Organisation for Migration, Geneva
- Dr Patty Kostkova, Principal Research Associate, UCL IRDR
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Exhibitor Stalls and Posters
In our reception area, which will be used for all coffee breaks and the evening reception, we will have exhibitor stalls and poster presentations to showcase UCL’s work in the humanitarian area. If you would like to be allocated a poster presentation or an exhibitor stall, please contact Rosanna Smith, Humanitarian Institute coordinator, at humanitarian-info@ucl.ac.uk providing your name, poster/ stall preference, and a 1 paragraph summary of the work you wish to present.
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Help spreading the word
Please share this invitation with any colleagues, associates, or groups who you think would be interested to attend.
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