Open Events
Open Events
Grand Challenges Celebration: Grand Finale and Showcase
This event will take place in the Forum on Friday 14th June. Students will spend the week designing innovative solutions to real world challenges and their projects and outcomes will be showcased in the Forum. Here are the details of the programme:
13.30 - Grand Finale in the Alumni Auditorium with all students across the Grand Challenges themes. A chance to hear from some of this year's student projects. This session will be opened by Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Education, Professor Tim Quine. If you would like to attend this session, please book a ticket via EventBrite here.
14:30 - Showcase opens in the Forum Street: all students exhibit their work and drinks are served while visitors engage with students and their outputs
15:30 - Live performance from Semi-Toned
16.00 - Close.
The showcase in the Forum Street between 14:30-16:00 is open to all and you do not need to book in advance.
Grand Challenges Schedule of Open Events
Please see below for challenge's individual timetables.
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Date |
Time |
Venue |
Speaker |
Title |
Description |
Open to |
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Monday 10th June |
13:00 – 14:00 |
Newman Blue |
Peter Cox (Chair), Stuart Barr, Jim Haywood, Saffron O'Neill |
Provocative Debate: To Mitigate, Adapt or Geoengineer, that is the question |
The provocative debate will consist of a panel of 3 well-established academics who will be arguing that climate change can best be tackled using either i) mitigation, ii) adaptation or iii) geoengineering. The format of the debate follow that of election TV debates. Panel members will take turns to put forward their arguments before taking a series of probing questions from the studio audience (i.e. the Grand Challenge participants). A final vote will indicate which of these strategies has gained the broadest support. |
Students and staff |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
Newman Blue |
Leo Hickman, Carbon Brief and Oliver Morton, Economist |
Master-class: Communicating Climate Change
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Communicating climate change is a particular skill. In addition, being able to distinguish truth from fiction is increasingly complex owing to the vast range of sources of information that are available in this digital age. In this Communications Masterclass, we will be joined by Leo Hickman, and Oliver Morton. Leo and Oliver are distinguished journalists with vast experience of the complexities surrounding the current climate change debate and in communicating these complexities to a range of audiences. Delivered on Skype |
Students and staff |
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Date |
Time |
Venue |
Speaker |
Title |
Description |
Open to |
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Monday 10th June |
14:00 - 15:00 |
Harrison LT 004 |
Dave Pickering, author of Mansplaining Masculinity |
Toxic Masculinity
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Blogger, campaigner and author will be discussing and unpicking toxic masculinity and the patriarchy.
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Students and staff |
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Tuesday 11th June |
14:00 - 15:00 |
Harrison LT 004 | Stephanie Boland, Head of Digital for Prospect Magazine and Co-Founder of Second Source | Sexual Harassment in the Workplace | Stephanie Boland will be discussing how The Second Source aims to combat sexual harassment in the workplace. |
Students and staff |
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15:00 - 16:00 |
Harrison LT 004 | Megha Mohan, Gender and Indentity Correspondent, BBC World Service | Gender and the Media | Megha Mohan will be talking about gender in the media. |
Students and staff |
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Date |
Time |
Venue |
Speaker |
Title |
Description |
Open to |
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Monday 10th June |
10:30 – 12:00 |
Forum Alumni Auditorium |
Sir Paul Newton |
Challenges in Gloabl Security |
Sir Paul will give you his own take on global security challenges in a wide ranging talk. |
Students and staff |
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Tuesday 11th June |
09:00 - 10:30 |
Forum Alumni Auditorium |
David Bond |
Writing for Policy Effect/Briefing Ministers |
Wing Commander David Bond, will provide an insight into writing Ministerial Submissions for former Prime Minister David Cameron. |
Students and staff |
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18:00 - 19:30 |
Forum Alumni Auditorium |
Futures in Foreign Policy Panel |
Careers in Foreign Policy | Join the University’s British Foreign Policy Group Student Ambassadors for a panel discussion with a former diplomat and a recent MStrat graduate. The Q&A session will provide the chance to learn more about different furtures in foreign policy and how you can succeed in this highly competitive field. Tickets are free and available to all students and University staff on EventBrite. |
Students and staff |
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Wednesday 12th June |
09:00 - 10:30 |
Forum Alumni Auditorium |
Aurel Sari |
Law and War |
Aurel Sari is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter, specializing in public international law. His work focuses mainly on questions of operational law, including the law of armed conflict, the legal status of foreign armed forces and the application of human rights law in deployed operations. |
Students and staff |
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Thursday 13th June |
09:00 - 10:30 |
Forum Alumni Auditorium |
Debra Ramsey |
Social Media and Strategy |
Debrah Ramsey will be discussing the use of social media as a strategic resource. |
Students and staff |
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13:30 – 15:00 |
Forum Alumni Auditorium |
Steve Tatham |
Fake News |
Steve Tatham will be assessing the impact of ‘fake news’. |
Students and staff |