Month: November 2022

COP27@DMU: Carbon Literacy Training

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The Carbon Literacy Training is a fun and interactive training session that enables participants to better understand the climate emergency and to develop meaningful plans to play their part in combatting climate change. The training is available for DMU staff and students. The course provides a basic understanding of climate science, an understanding of carbon footprints, an explanation of climate justice and how different countries are susceptible to climate impacts and the importance of communication in engaging people on climate issues. It will also be an opportunity to meet other staff and students who are interested in climate change.

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COP27@DMU: E-bike ‘have a go’ session 

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Leicester has the largest e-bike hire scheme in the UK. The Santander Cycles Leicester scheme has 50 docking stations across the city with 500 electric bikes to hire. There are two e-bike docking stations located on the DMU campus. This event will provide an opportunity for DMU staff and students to have a go on one of the SCL e-bikes on a pedestrianised part of the campus. Staff from Leicester City Council and the DMU Sustainability Team will be on hand to explain how to use the bikes and how the SCL system works to hire a bike from a docking station and how to return the bike after a journey.

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Researchers join Hub Nutrition Debate at FAO Summit

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DMU Senior Lecturer in Nutrition Dr Jessica Jin and PhD student Tutuwaa Baffo represented the university’s United Nations Academic Impact SDG Hub for SDG 16 at a forum debating how sustainable diets can be achieved. The event was put together by the University of Pretoria (UNAI SDG Hub for SDG2) as a side event to the FAO Science and Innovation Forum side-event, a panel discussion entitled: Exploring complexity: Policy options for nutritious, affordable and sustainable diets for all. here is a video of the debate:

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Discussing SDG10 in “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou

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Evidence shows that literature can be a significant tool for English language teaching and can help international students improve their skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in English. Literary texts, such as poems, short stories and novels, can provide international students with exciting opportunities to practise these language skills while also learning about grammatical structures and understanding new vocabulary. Duff and Maley (1990) argue that the use of literature is influential in language teaching since it provides students with real examples of language applications, and opportunities to experience new genres and styles and learn how to distinguish the function of each.

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Empowering Young People in the Kakuma Camp

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Rachel Rouncefield from Youth and Community Development in DMU’s Health and Life Science Faculty, has spent the past 18 months researching with a wide network of young people and organisations – investigating what makes successful co-creative work between adults and young people tick; whether it leads to community empowerment and how this kind of approach might benefit minority communities in particular.

Then, with the help of Bola Akinrolabu (Research Assistant) and some support funds from DMU for the research participants, the opportunity arose to run two research focus groups (virtually) with young people in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya (pictured). Rachel had heard about a particular project aimed at empowering young women at the camp, and had some help to engage with the young people and their supportive peers through a network member who had already been successful in gaining a scholarship from the camp to a Canadian university.

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Global Sustainability Awards for film unveiled at DMU

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De Montfort University recently hosted the 11th TVE Global Sustainability Film Awards Shortlist Announcement event. This was the first time the awards were brought on to campus at DMU, initiated by Dr Hiu Man Chan, pictured, Lecturer in Creative & Cultural Industries, in an attempt to engage the topic of United Nations SustainableDevelopment Goals with more students and staffs via the medium of film.

Professor Simon Oldroyd, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability) and Dean of Health and Life Sciences delivered a welcome address to the audience, followed by TVE chair Mei Sim Lai OBE DL’s introduction to Television for the Environment (TVE), a long standing charity campaigning for the environment.

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