Time: 1:30 - 5:30pm Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre
This free half-day seminar will explore how much and in what ways gender has been taken into account in planning 2012.
Speakers:Rimla Akhtar - Chair, Muslim Women's Sport FoundationJayne Caudwell - Senior Lecturer, Chelsea School, University of BrightonAlison Nimmo CBE - Director of Design & Regeneration, Olympic Delivery AuthorityTim Woodhouse - Head of Policy and External Affairs, Women's Sport and Fitness FoundationDiscussant:Louise Mansfield - Senior Lecturer, Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure, Canterbury Christ Church UniversityThe event will be chaired by Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography and Chair of the London Women and Planning Forum.Registration is at 1.30pm and the event will begin at 1.45pm, with a reception at 5.30pm.Join us for an afternoon of presentations and discussions - all welcome!Book online at www.qmul.ac.uk/events, or email events@qmul.ac.uk, including the name of the event and the number of places you wish to book.The London Women and Planning Forum is an information network for planning officers, architects, academics, students and community and voluntary organisations involved with urban environment and gender equality issues. It aims to change and improve the position of women in relation to planning issues; to provide a productive opportunity to share experiences of problems and difficulties encountered by women in the field; and to promote feminist thinking in planning organisations and urban studies. The Forum meets three times throughout the year to discuss contemporary urban issues from a gender perspective.Recent seminars have included:Women and Worship: New Approaches to Sacred SpacesWomen, House Design and Domestic SpaceSpace for DanceHome, Mosque and Street: Muslim Women and Urban DesignSteering group members:Wendy Davis - Women's Design ServiceAlison Blunt - Queen Mary, University of LondonAmanda Claremont - University of BrightonClare Melhuish - Brunel UniversityHaeRan Shin - The Bartlett School of PlanningFor seminar archives, see www.lwpf.org.ukFor further information, please contact the LWPF Administrator, Evelyn Owen, at e.owen@qmul.ac.uk