RSC Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term
‘Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration’
Series convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design.
About the speaker
Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, fellow of St. Cross College Oxford, and Course Director for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration. He holds an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford, an MSc from the University of London, and an MA from the University of Edinburgh. He was previously Lecturer at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol and Senior Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford. Before coming to academia, Tom worked as a development practitioner concerned with the education sector in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr Douglas Wilkinson is a Consultant Anaesthetist in Intensive Care Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He founded the Primary Trauma Care Foundation (PTC) in Oxford and is Surgeon Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve.
His talk is entitled ‘Primary trauma care worldwide: 20 years on’.
All members of the University and NHS clinical staff are welcome.
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