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Cumberland Lodge Programming Director Jan Bock is joined by Head of Strategic Partnerships at the Association of Commonwealth Universities Faye Taylor, Woolf Institute researcher Kitty O'Lone, and Head of Researcher Development at the University of Cambridge Steve Joy. The speakers touch on a range of issues, including the role of doctoral research in the present day and the challenges faced in re...

Three recipients of the 2017-2019 Cumberland Lodge Scholarship (Saeed, Tamanda, and Jack)meet to talk about the 12th annual Life Beyond the PhD conference and the scholarship program as a whole.

The closing address delivered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, on the final day of the 2018-19 Emerging International Leaders programme at Cumberland Lodge, on 'Freedom of Religion or Belief in Action'. Lord Ahmad is the Minister of State for the Commonwealth, the UN and South Asia, and the Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief. As the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom...

A recording of guest presentations from a session on 'Preventing Harm and Building Resilience' at the Cumberland Lodge conference on 'Understanding and Policing Gangs', held in June 2019. The session was chaired by Dr Rick Muir, Director of the Police Foundation, the UK’s independent policing think tank. Our three guest speakers were: - Sherry Peck, Chief Executive of Safer London (from 1:20) - Wi...

A recording of the 'Social Divisions & Identities' session from the Cumberland Lodge conference on 'Understanding and Policing Gangs' in June 2019, featuring presentations from: - John Pitts, Vauxhall Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bedfordshire's Institute of Applied Social Research (0:50) - Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Chief Executive of Turning Point (from 17:52) This sessio...

Dr Jan-Jonathan Bock, Programme Director at Cumberland Lodge, talks to two participants and guest speakers from the Cumberland Lodge conference on Working Identities, on 11-12 March 2019: Sietske van der Ploeg (Head of Evidence & Impact at The Mayor's Fund for London) and Anna Thomas (Co-founder and Director of the Institute for the Future of Work). They introduce their work, and talk about the mo...

On Tuesday 26 February, the British historian, Professor Martin Daunton, delivered a public lecture at Cumberland Lodge, on 'Contested Histories & Multiple Identities: The Place of the Past in the Present'. The lecture marked the end of a two-day conference on Difficult Histories & Positive Identities, held on 25-26 February. Martin Daunton has been emeritus professor of economic history at the Un...

Dr Roland Löffler, Director of the Regional Agency for Civic Education in Saxony, eastern Germany, delivered the keynote address to the Cumberland Lodge conference on Difficult Histories & Positive Identities, on Monday 25 February 2019. He spoke for 40 minutes, to an audience of experts and practitioners from diverse educational institutions and civil society, on 'Remembering the Past, Debating t...

Sean Pettis is Programme Manager for Legacies of Conflict at the Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland. He was a guest speaker at the Cumberland Lodge conference on 'Difficult Histories & Positive Identities' conference, on 25-26 February 2019. In this short talk, which set the tone for a conference session on 'Peace, Reconciliation and Positive Identities', Sean addressed the following issues:...

Listen to Lisa Power, a trustee of Queer Britain and co-founder of LGBT rights charity, Stonewall, talking about museums and representation in relation to LGBTQ histories. Lisa was a guest speaker at the Cumberland Lodge conference on 'Difficult Histories & Positive Identities' on 25-26 February 2019. She outlined plans for the new Queer Britain museum in London, on LGBTQ histories, and she addres...

Listen to Jonathan Wittenberg, Senior Rabbi to Masorti Judaism in the UK and Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue, delivering the introductory address to the 'Democracy in Crisis: Moral & Spiritual Resistance' interfaith symposium held by Cumberland Lodge and the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) on 7 January 2019, in Windsor Great Park. Rabbi Wittenberg is President of the CCJ and a member...

A reflective podcast on our 'Race in Britain: Inequality, Identity, Belonging' conference held on 1-2 November 2018, with Cumberland Lodge PhD Scholars, Saeed Akkad and Angelika Love. Saeed and Angelika discuss the key points they took away from the two-day conference, which was held at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park, and organised in partnership with The Runnymede Trust.

Listen to the writer and storyteller, Dr Sunny Singh, speaking to delegates at the 'Race in Britain: Inequality, Identity, Belonging' conference for 10 minutes on 1-2 November 2018, at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Sunny spoke during a session on 'The Role of the Past on Race and Identity Today'. The Principal of Cumberland Lodge, Ed Newell, posed the question: 'What, if any, is the ongo...

Reflections on our Race in Britain: Inequality, Identity, Belonging conference held on 1-2 November 2018 at Cumberland Lodge in partnership with The Runnymede Trust. Hear from Dr Omar Khan, Director of The Runnymede Trust, who delivered the closing remarks to the conference, and Canon Dr Ed Newell, Principal of Cumberland Lodge. This podcast was recorded on 9 November by Cumberland Lodge Scholar,...

A short podcast with leading anthropologist Professor Harvey Whitehouse, ahead of an evening seminar at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Harvey speaks to Cumberland Lodge Principal, Ed Newell, about what motivates extremist behaviour. Public policy is driven by the principle that violent extremist beliefs cause violent extremist behaviour, but building on a vast body of evidence from anthro...

A Cumberland Conversation with Alexandra Papadakis, head of Papadakis Publishing, the London-based publishers, on her life and work. This event took place at Cumberland Lodge, the educational foundation in Windsor Great Park, on Wednesday 1 November 2017, and was chaired by Ed Newell, Principal of Cumberland Lodge. An informal interview with Alexandra is followed by questions from the public audie...

Recording of our 70th anniversary Cumberland Conversation seminar, with guest speaker Theodore Zeldin, the renowned philosopher, writer and historian. Theodore speaks to Cumberland Lodge principal, Ed Newell, about the importance of conversation. Members of the audience were invited to participate in 45 minutes of in-depth, one-to-one conversations with other attendees who they hadn't met before,...

This 10-minute podcast with the Shadow Attorney General, Shami Chakrabarti, focuses on social divisions and the role of education in enhancing citizenship - "empowering young citizens", and the challenges of addressing social tensions and cyber-bullying online. Shami describes post-Brexit referendum Britain as "a challenging moment for those of us who believe in 'disagreeing well'. She talks about...

15 minutes with Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, a former MP and MEP and a life peer since 1997. She has worked in the Middle East for many years, with a particular interest in countering cruelty and extremism. She is the Chair of the AMAR Foundation, which helps to rebuild and improve the lives of disadvantaged communities in war-torn areas, and President of the Iraq Britain Bu...

The author Salley Vickers talks about the challenges facing young people today and the role of education in challenging social divisions and inequalities. She offers her views on the amount of testing required of young children, the lack of opportunity for discussion and debate, and the inequalities that exist between the state and private education sectors. Salley calls for greater inter-generati...

Spend 12 minutes in the inspiring company of the priest, writer, broadcaster and motivational speaker, The Revd Ruth Scott. Ruth has worked as a mediator in conflict resolution for many years and is a regular contributor to conferences and events at Cumberland Lodge. She talks about the challenges of hate crime and what makes communities more divisive, the role of education in building more peacef...

A conversation with Greg Hurst, Social Affairs Editor at The Times, recorded at the end of March 2017, in which he discusses the implications of the 'Brexit' vote for social divisions, the role of education in challenging social divisions, and the importance of dialogue in tackling social issues. This podcast is part of the 70th anniversary series of podcasts from Cumberland Lodge, celebrating 70...

Ten minutes with Dr Wanda Wyporska, Executive Director of the Equality Trust, on the threats to social cohesion in society today, the particular challenges facing young people, and issues of identity. Wanda talks about the 'broken social compact with young people', the problems of underemployment and insecure work, and the need to 'give young people a real stake in our economy'. She calls for a li...

Emeritus senior lecturer of History at University College London (UCL), Dr Negley Harte, speaks to Cumberland Lodge principal, Edmund Newell, about his recollections of Cumberland Lodge in the 1950s through to the 1990s, including his memories of the foundation's formidable yet inspiring founding warden, Amy Buller. This interview is published during the 70th anniversary year of Cumberland Lodge i...

In this Cumberland Lodge Lecture, Lord Finkelstein, executive editor and political columnist for The Times, talks about the idea of an arrow of history and its changing direction. In a far-reaching talk he covers economic, social and political change in the UK and the West, the spread of power and the rise of populism, the role of social media, the internet, religion, consumerism and environmental...