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Privacy notice

Please read our privacy notice which covers all our in-person and online events. Should you have any questions please contact unesco-rila@glasgow.ac.uk

Download the Pdf version here: GDPR notice UNESCO RILA 2020-2024

Privacy Notice for UNESCO RIELA programme of events 2020-2024

Your Personal Data

The University of Glasgow will be what’s known as the ‘Data Controller’ of your personal data processed in relation to events organised by the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts for the period 2020 - 2024. This privacy notice will explain how The University of Glasgow will process your personal data.

Why we need it

We are collecting your basic personal data such as name and email address in order to contact you in case of cancellation and in order to add you to our mailing list. We may record online events and use images from the event for marketing purposes, on our website, in our newsletter and on social media. If you wish to remain anonymous you can change or remove your name and switch off your camera and microphone for the duration of the event(s). We will only collect data that we need in order to provide and oversee this service to you.

Legal basis for processing your data

We must have a legal basis for processing all personal data. In this instance, the legal basis is

Consent – there is a consent clause on the registration form on Eventbrite
All the personal data you submit is processed by staff at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom.

What we do with it and who we share it with

In addition,

For online events we use Zoom. They comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can read their privacy statement
Participants come from all over the world and may take screen grabs of the event.
For registration to our events, we use Eventbrite. Their server is based in the United States, but they comply with the European Union’s GDPR. For more information, please see their privacy statement.
The meetings will be passcode protected and only registered participants will be able to join. After the first 10 minutes, the meeting will be locked. Participants have the right to change their name and switch off their camera, if they wish to remain anonymous throughout the events.

How long we keep it for

Your data will be retained by the University for the duration of the UNESCO Chair project, which runs until 31 December 2024. After this time, data will be securely deleted.

What your rights are*

You can request access to the information we process about you at any time. If at any point you believe that the information we process relating to you is incorrect, you can request to see this information and may in some instances request to have it restricted, corrected or, erased. You may also have the right to object to the processing of data and the right to data portability.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact the data protection office on dp@gla.ac.uk.

*Please note that the ability to exercise these rights will vary and depend on the legal basis on which the processing is being carried out.

Complaints

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact the University Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter.

Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dataprotectionofficer@glasgow.ac.uk

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/

Upcoming events

For full details of each event and to register, please visit our Eventbrite page unless another specific registration link is given.

Lots of our events are recorded and turned into podcast episodes. Why not head on over to our Podcast section to listen to some of them!

Find our team members at these upcoming events:

Date	Event Details
1 Mar 25	Creative Writing Workshop: Waters Rising Join artists and educators Jason Oliver and Tawona Sitholé in this creative writing workshop, 10:30am at Perth Museum, as they dive into the narratives inspired by the Waters Rising exhibition. In sharing their own connection to the carved Nyaminyami staff on display, a powerful symbol of protection and the strength of nature, Jason and Tawona will guide you through a range of exercises aimed at igniting creativity, improving writing skills and fostering collaboration. With a focus on the exhibition, this unique workshop will see you consider the ways in which objects and nature can connect people and inspire creativity. Book your place here!
6 Mar 25	Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé will be delivering a public lecture on their work with Gaza, entitled: Working with the rubble: the enduring resilience of Palestinian universities in Gaza. This will take place from 1-3pm at the Centre for Global Migrations, University of Otago. Download the event poster COE seminar 6 March 2025.
6 Mar 25	Book launch: There She Goes: New Travel Writing by Women. All warmly invited to this anthology of travel writing, edited by Esa Aldegheri. Place: The Portobello Bookshop. Time: 7:00-8:00pm. Get your tickets here.
7 Mar 25	Poetry from out of the rubble Dunedin Public Libraries and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature warmly invite you to join poets Alison Phipps and Tawona Ganyamatopé Sitholé from Glasgow in conversation with Neil Vallelly. Alison and Tawona will perform work from their first collection The Warriors who do not Fight and their upcoming collection In this Warriors Cry (Wild Goose Publications). Alison will also share from her bestselling collection Keep Telling of Gaza (Sìdhe Press), written with Khawla Badwan. Please join us afterwards for tea/coffee and cake. ‘Expect an evening of emotion, plenty of laughter and nourishing, resistant, joy in life.’
12 Mar 25
13 Mar 25	Who’s Afraid of Decolonisation? Featuring: Professor Alison Phipps & Tawona Sitholé Join us for an insightful discussion on ‘Lumpy Crossings: Trauma Sensitivity in Traumatising Times’, where Professor Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé will explore their work within the UNESCO Chair at Glasgow University. They will share their experiences in navigating the complexities of race, gender, and class while designing and delivering research projects focused on refugees and migration in an increasingly challenging global landscape. Time: 6:00 PM Location: St Michael’s Kelburn Entry: By Koha (donation)
23 Apr 25	Book talk at Gavin's Mill in Milngavie, Scotland Professor Alison Phipps and Khawla Badwan, the authors of ‘Keep Telling of Gaza’ a call-and-response book of poems, will read from their book, as well as talk of their experience working with colleagues in Gaza.
13-15 May 25	UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating We are excited to announce that the theme for next year's in-person Spring School is "May peace prevail". This Spring School will focus on peacebuilding, specifically using arts, languages and education. The call for contributions is out now! For 2025, we invite proposals which explore how to build peace in the minds of people, how to live together peacefully, restoratively and interculturally, how to respond to and counteract current events worldwide that seek to divide societies, and how to ensure that peace prevails, founded on justice. The deadline for proposals is midnight on Tuesday 28 January 2025.
11-13 Jun 25	Visiting Academic Dilara Özel will be presenting at the Imagining Sustainable Developments, Discussing Education Futures conference at Lancaster University, with her talk entitled "Fostering Peace Education Through Technological and Visual Tools in the Classroom".
13 Jun 25	We will be hosting an event as part of Refugee Festival Scotland and Glasgow Science Festival. More info to follow at the end of April.
23 Jun- 18 Jul 25	We will host a travelling exhibiting, showcasing work by UNESCO RIELA Affiliate Artists Hannah Rose Thomas and Robert McNeil, as part of the remembrance events around the Srebrenica Genocide. Here is where you can view the paintings: 23 June - 6 July: University Chapel 7 - 10 July: Advanced Research Centre, ground floor 11 - 18 July: School of Education, 5th floor gallery
24 Jun 25	Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum Esa Aldegheri will be a keynote speaker at this interdisciplinary symposium asking how creative practices have been used to inhabit, expose, navigate or contest global geographies of asylum in the twenty-first century. Taking place at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, Displaced Arts will explore the potential of arts – including literature, life-writing, storytelling, poetry, community theatre, photography, and film – to illuminate geographies of asylum which have been reshaped by increasingly securitised border regimes, narratives of a ‘refugee crisis’, and a rapidly growing asylum-industrial complex. The call for papers is available here and is open until Wednesday 15 January 2025.
27 Jun 25	Memorial event hosted in the University Chapel, to commemorate the victims of the Srebrenica genocide, 30 years after it took place. No need to book tickets, just come to the chapel. Exact time TBC.
9-11 Sep 25	Alison Phipps will deliver a keynote speech at the BERA (British Educational Research Association) Annual Conference 2025, at the University of Sussex. Visiting academic Dilara Özel will also be at the conference to deliver a workshop entitled "Building Theory and Practice: The Critical Need for Research-Driven Approaches in Peace Education"