In honor of mental health awareness month, the GRN and the Think Tank Programme on War, Conflict and Global Migration would like to create a space for you to discuss the challenges you face as graduate students.
What types of support would you like to receive from universities? Is your institution providing Programmes and support that contributes positively to your mental health?
We warmly welcome your participation in this unrecorded session that focuses on your journey through academia during Covid-19 and beyond.
Bava Dharani will share examples of incidents where universities are being exploitative or inconsiderate towards researchers and students, as in the viral tweets about the email exchange between a professor from York and a student from Myanmar, the mass lay-offs of Teaching Assistants in numerous universities in the USA for wanting to unionize and the locking down of student halls and issuing of expensive compulsory food rations in the UK during COVID-19 lockdown.
Anisa Abeytia will share her experiences working internally in the university, with regards to self care and mental health.
Finally, we will open up the space to allow anyone to share their experiences, problems they have encountered, issues they wish to be supported on.
About the Speakers
Anisa Abeytia is currently the student assistant for the Migration Studies Department and the Center for Latina/o Studies in the Americas at the University of San Francisco (USF). She is also a student mentor at Project Success at USF. Previously she was the Assistant to the Assistant Dean of Students/Multicultural Educator at Stanford University, She consultant for the Institute of International Education's Syrian Consortium for Higher Education and was invited by UNESCO to write a policy brief on higher education integration of rouges in Norway. Anisa is GRN’s Think Tank Programme Co-ordinator.
Bava Dharani completed her LLB and LLM in SOAS, UOL. She is currently pursuing the LPC at BPP University. Bava is interested in the Indian indentured history is Singapore and Malaysia, and the parallels and differences this labor movement bears to modern day migrant workers' movement chains. Previously, Bava worked as a paralegal in Singapore, specializing in criminal, civil and employment law. Bava is the Lead for GRN's Think Tank Programme in War, Conflict & Global Migration.
This panel discussion will shed light on the evolvement of financial crime in the dawn of technology requires an equal evolvement of whistleblowers. The panel is aimed to discuss research findings that suggests a new framework for the protection of financial whistleblowers.
About Our Speakers:
Anna Yamaoka-Enkerlin
Anna is an associate at White & Case LLP, New York. Anna has worked as a legal researcher at Urbanlogiq, as a consultant with the Guarini Global Law & Tech peoject at New York University (NYU), and as a legislative intern to the Canadian Parlimentary Secretary of Global Affairs. Previously, she was also the Technology Office of the International Bar Association (IBA)'s North American Regional Forum and spent time with the IBA's Legal Policy and Research Unit. Anna holds a law degree from the University of Oxford and an LLm from NYU.
Nicholas Ryder
Nicholas has over 20 years of experience in higher education and an international reputation for excellence in policy-oriented research in financial crime, Ryder has played advisory roles both nationally (Home Office, Law Commission, the Nationwide, Security Intelligence Services) and internationally (NATO, United Nations, CEPOL, EUROPOL, EUROMED Police, the Dutch Police, the France Telecom Group and the Law Reform Commission of Ireland). His research has attracted funding (£1.6m) from Innovate UK, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the City of London Police Force, the Royal United Services Limited, ICT Wilmington Risk & Compliance, the France Telecom Group and the European Social Fund. Collectively, he has published four monographs, five edited books and over 50 articles in internationally recognised journals including Legal Studies, the Cambridge Law Journal, the Journal of Business Law, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Contemporary Issues in Law.
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This event welcomes different narratives of how people rethink, overcome or transform their own barriers and borders. Through a guided conflict mapping process, we will channel our internal and external conflict trajectories, dynamics, patterns and styles to collectively experience what moving beyond our borders might feel like. We already tend to cope with "borders" through our own subconscious paths, but this process will open up the space to shed light on some of these paths and tap into simple hidden resources or tools.
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Do you use chocolate to get you through the academic year? Fancy learning about its history and production? Want to know how to taste craft chocolate like an expert? Join us for an exclusive online talk and tasting event with the fabulous Cocoa Runners on July 18th!
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Please note that a Chocolate Tasting Kit must be ordered well in advance to ensure that you will receive it prior to the event.
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A panel discussion on the implementation of residence permits for victims of domestic violence as foreseen by art. 59 of the Istanbul Convention. The idea would be to invite four or five NGO practitioners from different countries who are working with these permits, and perhaps a GREVIO member.
When it comes to anti-discrimination laws, good intentions do not always lead to positive change on the ground. This panel discussion is aimed at shedding light on particular instances where policymakers in India and Europe failed to take into consideration the social realities of particularly vulnerable groups.
The panel discussion is hosted by Amit Anand and Preethi Lolaksha Nagaveni from the Think Tank on Human Rights, Family and Gender together with GRN Think Tank Programme Associate, Jasmin Beck.
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