Dr. Rajesh Tandon was recently invited to Northumbria University to give a talk on ‘Higher education, youth engagement and social justice: Emerging lessons’ on June 4th, 2019 from 12 pm to 1pm. The video of the talk is available at the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8qvryqice7vpcqp/AAAk4riez0V2no67VdT5Kk8Pa?dl=0. The talk was preceded by a lunch with the engagement team of the University https://www.ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/engagement/
This visit also resulted into some important meeting with UPP Foundation and Living Deltas. Dr. Tandon was a part of talk on Civic University Commission with John Goddard with specific focus on Civic University Agreements. The final report of the UPP Foundation Civic University Commission is available here: https://upp-foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Civic-University-Commission-Final-Report.pdf
Dr. Tandon also met with the Living Deltas team (https://www.livingdeltas.org/). Living Deltas Hub is a partnership between United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI), Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and New Castle University. The meeting was held in the afternoon of June 4th, 2019.