Does short-term volunteering abroad for more harm than good?

When: Wed 11 October 2017 18:00-21:00
Where: John Snow Lecture Theatre London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London WC1E 7HT

Wednesday 11th October the fourth debate of the LIDC & The Guardian Development Debate Series will take place. The theme of the debate will be:

Does Short-term Volunteering Abroad do More Harm than Good?
 

This event will take place at 6:00pm and registration is required. The event is free to  all LIDC members.

All post-graduate students, alumni and staff at our member colleges (LSHTM, SOAS, Birkbeck, RVC, UCL IOE, City, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London) and current postgraduate students at Kings College Department of International Development and UCL DPU are able to become LIDC members for free here: http://www.lidc.org.uk/about/join

To register for the event please click here.

The panellists are:

• Prof. Andrew Jones, Vice- President (Research and Enterprise) at City, University of London
• Tricia Barnett, former Director of Tourism Concern and current Director of Equality in Tourism
• Dr. Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University 
• Alex Kent, Strategy Director at Restless Development 
• Moderator: Bibi van der Zee, Editor of The Guardian Global Development Professionals Network.