Sushila Dhall is Therapeutic Services Manager at Refugee Resource, a therapeutic charity specialising in the mental, emotional and practical needs of refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants, offering 1:1 and group therapy, mentoring, a woman’s social and educational group, a men’s service, an interpreters’ support group, advice and advocacy and a social inclusion service. Take […]
Is transport poverty an empirically proven phenomenon based on the travel behaviours and experiences of low income populations in the UK? Or is it – like other many other aspects of deprivation, such as energy poverty, housing shortage, health inequalities, a systematically and deliberately constructed denial of resources to marginalise the lower classes? When poor […]
Roger Griffin has recently retired from his post as Professor of Modern History and Political Theory at Oxford Brooke’s University. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on the dynamics of fascism and of violence stemming from political or religious fanaticism, and in particular contemporary terrorism. He has made a number of contributions to […]
Do we need a review of medicines and devices in healthcare? In 2018, Jeremy Hunt MP announced a review into how the NHS responds to harms from medicines and medical devices. This followed patient-led campaigns on the use of the hormone pregnancy test Primodos, anti-epileptic drug sodium valproate and surgical mesh. Carl Heneghan has given […]
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OxHums member, Corinne Grimley Evans, presents a personal view from her own extensive experience of what it’s like for ordinary Palestinians in the West Bank under occupation. Members and students free, non-members £3 donation please. B
The Cafe Scientifique is a successful UK community ,originally imported from France, to provide a public forum in which scientific ideas can be discussed informally involving scientists and non-scientists alike, aiming to inform, to entertain, and to provoke debate. The Oxford Cafe Sci meets on the second Tuesday of each month except August, all are […]
The non-religious are discriminated against in almost every country, and in some places they face outright persecution. This may take the form of government-backed religious privilege, laws prohibiting advocacy of human rights or criticism of religion, even direct hate speech, threats or violence on grounds of atheism, humanism or secularism. In 13 countries you can be put […]