Annual Lecture 2011
The CHILDREN 1ST annual lecture, ‘Families – poverty and community’, will be delivered this year by Bob Holman, academic, author and social welfare campaigner.
Bob Holman’s career spans more than 50 years in social welfare. He has had an active role in influencing policy as an academic and commentator and has received honorary doctorates from both Bath University and The Open University and was a visiting professor at University of Glasgow and University of Swansea.
Bob is perhaps best known as a poverty campaigner, giving up his academic career to reconnect with grass roots practice amongst children and young people, working initially in Bath and for more than 25 years, in Easterhouse. He is the founder of FARE – Family Action in Rogerfield and Easterhouse, and for whom he still volunteers.
He writes regularly in the social work press and the national press and has been recognised with a range of awards for his work. He has also published more than 20 books, his latest being a biography, ‘Keir Hardie, Labours Greatest Hero?’
Bob will draw on his experiences of setting up successful grassroots schemes in two neglected communities, and will introduce the audience to his core theory that the poor are best helped by people who live with them, rather than by people who lecture at them – a theory which has its roots in 19th century Christian socialism. He will expand on his work supporting children and young people and their families who are living with poverty and will argue that, “If the primitive tribes that haunt our graffiti-ridden urban jungles appear less civilised than the rest of us, it is not because they are an “underclass” with a genetic disposition to criminality, immorality and sloth, but because, crudely, they have been cheated out of their share of the national wealth.”
Join us for what promises to be a stimulating, challenging and thought provoking event.
The lecture will be accompanied by a light buffet and refreshments and will be held in the Deeprose Lecture Theatre at Glasgow Caledonian University. Registration will be from 6pm and the lecture will begin at 6.45pm.
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