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For academic staff
Bringing Project Unity to your university
Depending on suitability, we invite local practitioners (police, local authorities and DfE) to join as audience members. This allows students to ask questions about what Counter Terrorism looks like in practice locally, demystifying what can otherwise seem an opaque subject. These conversations with practitioners tend to continue long after the event finishes.
Some events are arranged as a timetabled lecture for a cohort, where we advertise it up for other students to attend too. Others are organised as public events and advertised as such. We aim to work around the needs of the host setting as much as we can.
What do we need from you?
For these events, we arrange the speakers, the travel, promotional material, risk assessment template and the agenda. All we need from lecturers is help with publicising the event among students, making sure that the right people in the university know about the event (external speaker policy etc.) and that you can act as moderator on the day.
If you are interested in arranging an event, get in contact with us now.
Every Project Unity event provides a unique educational opportunity for students. We have hosted our speaking engagements as part of courses relating to psychology, criminology, politics, protective security and more. The lived experience of the speakers makes for an engaging and informative event.
We have spoken to universities across the country, and cover all travel expenses and logistics for speakers to attend. The events typically take the form of two segments. The first half involves questions from the chair to each panellist, to set the discussion. Such as, ‘what happened on the day of the attack and how has it affected your life since’; ‘how were you radicalised, and how did you leave extremism behind?’ The second half is the Q&A segment, in which we invite questions from the student audience.
