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Better Start Blackpool – Activate and Community Development Research

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The Better Start Blackpool project is one of five sites across England to have received 10 years funding from the Big Lottery (£215million). There purpose is to enhance life chances for 0-4 year olds within a family and community context, Blackpool has chosen to take a Community Development approach in the way they carry out their work.

Building solidarities for Anti-Racist Adult Education - ESREA, Edinburgh, 13-15 June 2018

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The unprecedented speed and scale of transnational migration are giving rise to complex, often contradictory, discourses, politics, policies, and practices. On the one hand, there is global competition for talents that seems to be breaking down gender, racial and ethnic hierarchies on which older migration regimes were built. *** PROGRAMME UPDATED ***

University of Glasgow Professor to chair Scotland’s refugee integration partnership and strategy

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A University of Glasgow professor and human rights advocate will lead the partnership supporting refugees and asylum seekers rebuilding their lives in Scotland, it was announced today (1 May 2018).

Professor Alison Phipps will take over as the Chair of the New Scots Core Group at the end of this month.

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