As part of the ONLINE Doctoral College Lecture Series, we are pleased to invite you on 11 February 2021, at 12.30pm to speed lectures and a panel discussion with our DMU PhD Students. Focusing on the impact of COVID-19 in the context of World Day of Social Justice. The event will be chaired by Professor Julia J.A. Shaw – Professor of Law and Social Justice, and Director of the Centre for Law, Justice and Society.
Talks will include:
Leon Reichle (Centre for Urban Research on Austerity) - Social (in)justice of reproduction: housing conditions in Leipzig, East Germany - Exploring the stratified effects that urban restructuring in the East German city of Leipzig has for tenants and their relations to one another. In my presentation I will focus on how the (hyper)commodification of housing, hence the increasing importance of housing as an asset versus housing as a home, (re)produces social injustices in a historically working class and immigrant, yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood of Leipzig.
Amina Chitembo (People Organisations and Work Institute) - Navigating self and otherness: highly skilled migrant women’s self-inclusion into leadership positions - The talk presents some preliminary findings of how highly skilled migrant women circumnavigate social justice issues in their pursuit for upward career progression opportunities in UK based public sector organisations.
Jessica Gallagher (Centre for Law, Justice and Society) - “The degree of civilisation in a society is measured by how it treats it's prisoners: identifying how the crisis within prisons sets the incarcerated up to fail” - England and Wales are failing their prisoners, leaving them within prisons with inadequate facilities and exposing them to myriad safety concerns in environments where violence and fear overwhelm any hope of rehabilitation. This lecture looks at the current failings, but with hope towards reform and improvement for those incarcerated; a difficult but necessary path we must set upon.
Georgios Kitsoleris - (Institute for Applied Economics and Social Value) - “Social mobility: a signal of an open society” - An open society provides opportunities to their citizens to move upwards while social mobility also leads to the opposite direction generally for people who do not have the capabilities to maintain their status. The importance of social mobility in every society is acknowledged. The expectations and aspirations of different generations that their life’s outcomes are not associated only with the socio-economic background but mainly by their efforts and merit, can reinforce the sense of justice in a state. In addition, this state benefits for the talents and skills of all citizens (without losing valuable human capital) and it may reach better welfare more easily.
Places can be booked up to one hour before the event.
Registrants will receive a link to join the online talk 2 days before the event, via their provided email address.
Please contact the DMU Events Office on eventsoffice@dmu.ac.uk if you have any questions.