Category Archive For "Resources"
Day 13 #16DaysOfActivism 2023
Join us for #16DaysOfActivism from across the Parallel Lives Network. I’ll be interviewing network members about their particular take on activism and what it means to their cause. The programme runs from Saturday 25th November – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – through to Human Rights Day on Sunday 10th December. For Day 13 …
Day 11 #16DaysOfActivism 2023
Join us for #16DaysOfActivism from across the Parallel Lives Network. I’ll be interviewing network members about their particular take on activism and what it means to their cause. The programme runs from Saturday 25th November – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – through to Human Rights Day on Sunday 10th December. For Day 11 …
Day 9 #16DaysOfActivism 2023
Join us for #16DaysOfActivism from across the Parallel Lives Network. I’ll be interviewing network members about their particular take on activism and what it means to their cause. The programme runs from Saturday 25th November – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – through to Human Rights Day on Sunday 10th December. We’ve reached Day …
Day 5 #16DaysOfActivism 2023
Join us for #16DaysOfActivism from across the Parallel Lives Network. I’ll be interviewing network members about their own particular take on activism and what it means to their cause. The programme runs from Saturday 25th November – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – through to Human Rights Day on Sunday 10th December. Wednesday 29th …
FREE Online Course – An Introduction to Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance
By John Coster: Thanks to Dr Roger Harrison from the University of Manchester for sharing this FREE online course opportunity with members of the Parallel Lives Network. A new free, short online course has been developed by students, for students, called An Introduction to Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance. Pitched towards high-school and early undergraduates, the …
Mehrdar Art & Production Doc Showcase
On Thursday 10th March I was asked to review a showcase of documentaries created by women involved in the Mehrdar Art programme in Lyari, Karachi, Pakistan. I had the opportunity to view 5 documentary films from the cohorts showcase of 12. The documentaries are the result of 60 women being recruited to participate in the …
Resources: Language Cafe
The Language Cafe is hosted at the Documentary Media Centre, 14 Northampton Street, Leicester on the 1st Saturday of each month between 11:00am – 1:00pm. Each month is themed and we invite a guest who can share their national language/s with us. During our first Language Cafe of 2022, we had a guest from China….Layla. Here …
Live Brief for New Global Health MSc
The Parallel Lives Network was recently approached by Kathleen Nthakomwa-Cassidy (Programme Leader MSc Global Health and Senior Lecturer: BSc Health and Wellbeing in Society) to help with a module – HEST 5103: Global Health skills – part of her new MSc programme at De Montfort University. After several conversations with Tina Barton, the Director of …
International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM 6th February
On Thursday 3rd February, John Coster, Parallel Lives Network Director and Delta, DMU Year 1 Journalism student, hosted a content gathering session at the She Inspires Global Community & Enterprise Hub in Leicester. Zinthiya Ganeshpanchen, CEO of the Zinthiya Trust invited us to speak with staff and visitors using the Hub over three hours to …
DocXplorers Series: Hiren Pandit
The DocXplorers Series involves John Coster interviewing industry practitioners and issue experts from across the Parallel Lives Network’s Members and supporters. Next up is Hiren Pandit, the Program Coordinator & Research Fellow at Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). We discussed several projects including: Fellows Programme 2021 – each of BNNRC’s 18 Community Radio Stations spread across the country, …