Dame Barbara Stocking: Papplewick Pumping Station Annual Lecture

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Dame Barbara Stocking: Papplewick Pumping Station Annual Lecture

By Arts and Social Sciences Research Accelerators

Date and time

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:30 - 19:30 GMT+1

Location

A30 Arts Centre Lecture Theatre

Nottingham Lakeside Arts, University Park University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD United Kingdom

Description

Is there enough for all of us? - Global Growth, Climate Change and Food Security

Dame Barbara Stocking was Chief Executive of Oxfam GB from May 2001 until February 2013. During this time Barbara led major humanitarian responses including the Horn of Africa and the West Africa food crises, as well as the Haiti earthquake, Pakistan floods and Tsunami. On campaigning Barbara led Oxfam's work on Make Poverty History, and more recently their work on climate change and the current Grow campaign on food justice in a resource-constrained world. Barbara regularly spoke at major global meetings; for example at the UN, in New York and Rome and at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

In July 2013 Barbara took up her new post as the fifth President of Murray Edwards College, founded as New Hall, in the University of Cambridge.

Programme:

5.30-6.00pm Registration and Arrival Drinks 6.00-6.10pm Welcome
Dr Rachel Gomes, Trustee of Papplewick Pumping Station and Assistant Professor in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham
6.10pm- 6.15pm

Introduction to Dame Barbara Stocking, DBE
Professor Pat Thomson, Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies

6.15pm- 7.00pm

Is there enough for all of us? Global growth, climate change and food security
Dame Barbara Stocking, DBE, President of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

7.00pm-7.15pm

Q&A
Professor Pat Thomson, Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies

7.15pm-7.30pm

Closing remarks
Geoffrey Bond, OBE DL, Chairman of the Papplewick Pumping Station Trust

Directions: The A30 Arts Lecture theatre is the rotunda between buildings 33 and 50 on the University Park campus map here:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sharedresources/documents/mapuniversitypark.pdf

Thinking of travelling by car?
The latest on the tramworks as they affect University Park campus is available here:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/visitorinformation/tram-development/nottingham-tram-development.aspx

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The Arts and Social Sciences Research Accelerators support research and public engagement in the Arts and Social Sciences through a programme of activities to build research capacity and promote opportunities for collaborative research and KE.

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