The session will bring together a group of senior academics, policymakers and practitioners to discuss the role of cross-sector collaborations and innovative financing tools in supporting refugees. We'll look at a number of examples of outcomes-focused contracts seeking to facilitate the integration of refugees in both high and lower income countries to understand the barriers refugees are facing, the challenges of coordinating holistic support for refugees and the underlining mechanisms and principles that can help drive robust outcomes-focused programmes.

Campion Hall is delighted to host this year's The Newman Lecture, which is delivered by Professor Linda Hogan and moderated by the Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes. This event is held at the Pichette Auditorium at Pembroke College but will also be live-streamed for online audience. You are invited to join either online OR in person.

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Moderated conversation around race as a category of historical analysis in graduate research.

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How do you turn research into impact? ‘Impact’ has become one of the buzzwords of the social sciences; but what does it mean, especially in relation to government policy and practice? Beyond lists of ‘recommendation’, how do researchers plan pathways to societal and economic transformation? The session will bring together three academics who have all successfully influenced public policy in their research: Prof.

Europe Beyond the Euro: Building Protection for Europe’s Economies in the Time of Risks

This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. This seminar will be held online.

Until recently Syria was known as a state of openness for the many waves of forced migrants that came from the Balkans and other neighboring countries over the 19th and 20th century and took shelter in Syria. The mass influx of peoples into Syria over the last 150 years, including Circassians, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, Armenian, Assyrians, Albanians, Kosovars, Palestinians and Lebanese and Iraqis, created a modern nation of great cultural hybridity.

In 1981 the Israeli columnist and artist Amos Kenan wrote in his non-fiction essay book Your Land, Your Country: