Centre Co-Director, Dr. James Harrison will be speaking at an event in Edinburgh entitled "Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments: making them work for you" on 1 October in Edinburgh. The event is designed to explore how Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments (EQHRIA) can be used as tools that can help any organisation, whether public, voluntary or private to improve the lives of the people of Scotland. For more inormation about the event click here.

Dr. Harrison will be talking about the The 10 Good Practice Building Blocks which he designed to assist public authorities and those carrying out public functions in Scotland to undertake equality and human rights impact assessments (EQHRIAs) that will lead to better outcomes for the individuals and communities they serve. You can find out more about those building blocks here.

It has just been announced that the Centre and Lacuna Magazine's writer in residence, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi has been short-listed for her work by the prestigious George Orwell Prize for Journalism. All the other short-listed journalists are from leading national newspapers (the Guardian, Economist, Independent and Scotland on Sunday). If Rebecca wins, it will be the second Orwell Prize for the University of Warwick’s Centre for Human Rights in Practice in three years. Andrew Williams won the Orwell Book Prize in 2013 for 'A Very British Killing'

Rebecca's shortlisted pieces included:

• Down the Rabbit hole: Single parenthood in austerity Britain
• How to Build a Law Centre
• Black and dangerous? Patient experiences of mental health services in London
• Rats in the Lunchbox

A feature on foodbanks written for LACUNA magazine Centre Co-Director James Harrison has been republished in The New Statesman. The article, which offers a critical appraisal of the expansion of foodbanks in the UK, was published to widespread acclaim and has attracted praise from journalists, commentators and writer of "The Thick of It" Armando Iannucci. Read the article here. For more exciting content from Lacuna Magazine subscribe to our mailing list.