'All Quiet on the Eastern Front? British Bangladeshi Reactions to 9/11'

When?

Monday 23 February 2004, 17:00 to 18:30

Where?

19AD04

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Speaker:

Halima Begum

Halima Begum (Department for International Development - DFID)

Halima Begum is a Research Associate at the LSE Centre for Civil Society, where she is developing an academic paper on social capital and civil society interventions in London's East End. Previously Halima was a policy researcher with Action Aid International working on an UNICEF-NGO review of civil society movements and basic rights for the World Education Summit in April 2000. She was also a policy analyst on the Runnymede Trust's report The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain (2000). Halima's PhD (Queen Mary-University of London) examined the role that culture and creativity can play in fostering civic engagement in Tower Hamlets.

Her research interests include social capital, civil society, activism, British-Bangladeshis, and arts-led civic renewal.

Halima is currently employed as a Policy Adviser at the Department for International Development.

Publications

Social capital in action: adding up local connections and networks, NCVO, December 2003.
Social capital: a comparative study in London, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics, 2004 CCS Working Paper.
`Educational inequalities in the UK', Education Action, Issue 11, August 1999.
`Education for All - A synthesis report on 25 countries', submitted as a keynote paper to the Dakar World Education Conference, April 2000, (UNICEF/Action Aid).
`Giving a voice to the silent revolution', The Guardian, 24 August 1994.
`Teenage heroin addicts', Time Out, September 1994.