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Writing Wrongs Essay Competition Winners
On Saturday 23rd April, the Law School's Widening Participation team hosted the prize giving event of the inaugural 'Writing Wrongs' essay competition. Since November, we have been working with 25 pupils from non-traditional backgrounds from eight schools in Coventry and Warwickshire through a series of Saturday workshops in order to improve their research skills and write a 2,500 word essay on the theme of social justice.
The winning essay was written by Gurpreet Dhaliwal from Campion School, Leamington Spa, who wrote an essay entitled ‘Human Trafficking, an underworld crime’. Gurpreet will see her essay published in the Lacuna online magazine and have a paid summer internship with the publication. The runners up were Grace Knowles(Tile Hill Wood School) and Claudi Geraghty (Campion School).
Teaching Human Rights in Schools - OUP blog post by Centre Fellow Dr Ali Struthers
New OUP blog post published by Centre Fellow, Dr Alison Struthers, on the controversial nature of teaching about human rights in schools.
Read the full piece here.
Event: Writing About Human Rights for Children, organised by Centre Fellow Ali Struthers
Centre research fellow Alison Struthers will host a lunchtime workshop on 'Writing About Human Rights for Children' on 19 February 2016, 12 - 2 pm.
This IAS interdisciplinary workshop seeks to bring together academics from English, Law and Education, as well as teachers and writers, to discuss writing for young people and making difficult or complex issues accessible for this audience. There will be short presentations from two children’s authors, as well as discussions around existing books that address difficult subject matter in an effective way. A buffet lunch will be provided at 12pm, with the workshop following from 12:30-2pm.
Please email a.struthers@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
For full details of this event click here