John Wheal

Haunted house broadcast
23 April

Third-year TV and Broadcast students have a live streamed broadcast this Friday (27 April) at 2pm from the countries most haunted house, Wymering Manor.

The show will be broadcast to the Big Screen Portsmouth and on the CCI TV YouTube channel.

Watch the broadcast here.

School of Architecture Lecturer and Director of the Cluster for Sustainable Cities, Professor Steffen Lehmann has teamed up with Professor Steven De Meester from the University of Ghent, in Belgium, to tackle research on plastic waste.

Their project, entitled PlastiCity, has been selected for Stage 2 for Funding Call 5 by Interreg-2-Seas.

The overall objective of PlastiCity is to develop a plastic recycling hub and method for affordable collection, sorting and treatment of plastic waste in the coastal areas of the UK, France, the Netherlands and Belgium, where the material resources are recovered, recycled and the green economy is promoted.

Read more about the project here.

Workshop will explore aid sector scandal

A series of discussions and talks at the University of Portsmouth will focus on the issue of sexual exploitation in the humanitarian aid sector.

The workshop, Civil Society under Attack, will also look at the broader questions of NGO accountability and how NGOs can rebuild public trust.

Key speakers at Thursday’s event include Shaista Aziz, the co-founder of campaigning platform Intersectional Feminist Foreign Policy. She has been a broadcast journalist and formerly worked as a media specialist for Oxfam, Amnesty International, Save the Children and Islamic Relief.

Sarah Blakemore, director of charity Keeping Children Safe, will also speak. The organisation publishes international safeguarding standards for humanitarian relief and development charities.

The event runs from 1pm until 6pm on Thursday, 19 April in the University’s Park Building. Register and find further information here.

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