32nd Annual RWF event online 26th June 2020:

Community knowledge, community learning and community recovery in the COVID 19 period and beyond

Free Zoom Webinar 26th June 2020 at 6-30 to 8.00pm

This was the publicity sent out:
Although RWF is unable to run its usual weekend this year, we would like to offer you a place on our
free Zoom webinar, entitled:
Community knowledge, community learning and community recovery in the COVID 19 period and
beyond. Free of charge, on the 26th June at 6-30 to 8-00 pm.
Raymond Williams reflected that one reason people turn to learning is to help them make sense of,
adapt to, or shape processes of societal change. The aim of the 32nd annual Raymond Williams
Foundation discussion event, which this year for the first time will take place online, is to explore the
role informal community learning could play in helping us more clearly understand how to
collectively recover from the current crisis sparked by Covid-19.
Featured speakers are; Dr Lisa Mckenzie – Lisa is a sociologist at Durham University, she is a
working-class academic and her work focuses upon on issues of social and class inequality. Melissa
Benn - Melissa is a writer, journalist and campaigner and author of 'Life Lessons: The Case for a
National Education Service'. She is the daughter of Tony Benn and Caroline Benn. Nigel Todd - Nigel
is a Newcastle Labour Councillor, chairs the UK Cooperative College. Your host is Dr Sharon Clancy -
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Management University of Nottingham.
In the RWF tradition, this webinar will be as interactive as possible, with brief presentations (10 mins
max) from each of the speakers and then opportunity for discussion in break out rooms. There will
be a plenary at the end to pull together our thoughts and responses and to allow speakers to
respond.

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Audio, Powerpoint file and notes from this event can be found(81MB) HERE