Arts for Resilience

Make Your Mark Project

Resilience Forum

Building the resilient school
Monday 20 May
1.30 pm - 3.00 pm
A501 Checkland Building
Falmer Campus
University of Brighton

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Wednesday 5 September 2012 PDF Print E-mail

Resilience Forum for ANYBODY (with a pulse!) involved with or interested in resilience research

Date:  Wednesday 5 September 2012

Time:  1.15 pm for 1.30 pm – 3.00 pm

Venue:  D419, Checkland Building, Falmer campus, BN1 9PH

Topic:  Collective resilience and stalking - Sam Taylor and Claudia Miles

Sam and Claudia will present their experiences of ‘collective resilience’, having successfully campaigned to make ‘stalking’ a separate law.  They will look at the commonality of their own experiences, extreme fear, in some cases devastating loss.  This sense of unity can also include understanding the profile of stalking perpetrators, whether they be ex-intimate partner or stranger stalkers.

Biography: Sam Taylor is a core member of the Service-User Strategy Group within the School of Nursing and Midwifery and a service-user/visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton.  She has an MA in Creative Writing and Personal Development and has used her own creative writing to raise awareness around the issues of domestic abuse, stalking and harassment and has published a poem on the subject.  She is also a member of the charity ‘Protection Against Stalking’ a victim-lead organisation, who have successfully campaigned in Parliament this year to make ‘Stalking’ a law in its’ own right.

Audience: Those working, studying or interested in law and criminology, humanities and social work, health and social care, or child protection.

Reading

Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Stalking Law Reform - Main Findings and Recommendations (pdf)
Protection Against Stalking (external link)
Resilience in Two Minutes (video - external link)
Victims of Stalking Speak Out BBC (video - external link)

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For details of where to find us please see this map (external link).  The Falmer Campus is well-served by public transport (25, 25A and 25C buses, and Falmer train station).

*NOTE  Parking restrictions do not apply outside term-time. However, demand for parking at Falmer is far in excess of the spaces available and alternative transport is strongly recommended.

To view the slides for this Forum please go to the downloads section.

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Does resilience change the way we think about inequalities and the struggle for social justice? Or should inequalities change the way we think about resilience? 

  

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