Lifecourse Institute Distinguished Lecture “Inequality and Diversity across the Lifecourse: Intercultural Perspectives”

18 May 2011
Aras Moyola, Room MY243 NUI Galway
The Child and Family Research Centre in NUI Galway, together with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and the Centre for Disability Law and Policy hosted the second Lifecourse Institute Distinguished Lecture that addressed the issues of diversity and inequalities and their effects across the Lifecourse.

Ireland is currently at a crossroads and has not yet fully addressed how it intends to address inequalities and diversity as it moves forward. Lessons from the UK and elsewhere in Europe were drawn on.

Speakers include:

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Professor Jagdish Gundara, UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Education in the University of London. Prof. Gundara has acted as an advisor on interculturalism to a range of governments.

Dr Siobhán Mullally, a distinguished academic in the field of human rights law, diversity and immigration. Dr Mullally is currently a senior law lecturer in University College Cork and former co-director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights and Chairperson of the Irish Refugee Council.

Press Release availeable here.

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