 E-mail: [Oxford Hub] LEAVING SOON?; LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES
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Dear Oxford Hub member, If you're leaving soon then congratulations! As you set off into the world, looking for opportunities to make a difference where you can, we'd like to invite you to become an Oxford Hub alumnus and both keep in touch with the charities you were involved with at Oxford as well as stay up to date with a whole host of networking, events and career opportunities… See more below. We think you'll find the 4 emails a year worth it, so to join please send an email to manager@oxhub.org with your new contact email as well as details of which charities, if any, you've been involved with at Oxford. In other news, there aren't many events coming up this week, but there are tons of internships and opportunities to go on courses over the summer. Also, Refugee Week in 9th looks set to have an excellent line-up of events, including expecially the speaker event next Monday at the Town Hall. Finally, the application deadline for Oxford Hub:U8 committee positions advertised last week has been extended until Friday 8th because I gave you the wrong email address. Applications should be sent to u8@oxfordhub.org not u8@oxfordhub.com Have a great 8th week and good luck to all those with exams! Adam |
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1. LEAVING SOON? OXFORD HUB ALUMNIKeep in touch with the charities you were involved with at Oxford and stay up to date with a whole host of networking, events and career opportunities to help you keep making a difference in the future… Sign-up as an alumnus of the Oxford Hub, Oxford’s new one-stop-shop for charitable activity. Send your new contact email address to manager@oxhub.org and if relevant, tell us which charities you’ve been involved with at Oxford.
See www.oxfordhub.org for more details about the Hub. What are the benefits to being an Oxford Hub alumni? - Keeping in touch with the charities and causes that kept you busy while at university
- Networking opportunities in London and Oxford with others involved with charitable work
- Quarterly newsletters informing you of upcoming events of interest
- Access to careers information and opportunities
If you’ve been deep in exams and have missed what has been going on this year, check out www.oxfordhub.org/oxfid for just one of the amazing events that you could get invited back to as an alumnus. So, what are you waiting for? Send your new email contact to manager@oxhub.org. And tell us which charities, if any, you were connected to while at Oxford. |
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2. Oxford Hub: U8 - COMMITTEE POSITIONSU8 is a platform for students to engage with international development issues, and in Oxford has recently become an initiative of the Oxford Hub in line with the Hub’s wider aim to connect students with causes. The U8 President sits on the Oxford Hub’s committee and U8 is now recruiting new executive members for the coming academic year.
Positions available:
- Forum convener 1 – will co-convene an informal seminar series in Michaelmas 08, which provides an introduction to international development. A little familiarity with international development issues is required
- Forum convener 2 – will co-convene a ‘forum’ or discussion group in Michaelmas 08 that will allow participants to explore issues in international development, by profiling different countries each week
- Research coordinator – work with others to launch U8’s next round of research topics in November
- Publicity officer
To apply for any of these positions, or to express an interest in U8, please email u8@oxfordhub.org by Friday 8th Week (13th June)
What is U8? U8 Oxford is the Oxford chapter of U8, a network of groups in 34 universities around the world. In Oxford, we convene: - Seminar series, where students can be introduced to issues in an organised and extensive way
- Forums, which provide an informal relaxed space for debate, deliberation and ideas sharing
- Research projects, where students can work as part of student teams on an extended project
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3. Student Hubs: JUST CAREERS CO-ORDINATOR INTERNSHIPFULL INFO: Just-Careers Internship.pdf Internship title: Just Careers Co-ordinator Location: Student Hubs office, Cowley Road, Oxford Key Contact: Adam O’Boyle, adam.oboyle@studenthubs.org Start: June - Flexible Working hours: 3 days per week fulltime (23.5 hours), ideally 8 weeks Salary: £150 per week Closing date for applications: 11th June 2008 Please send a CV and short covering letter setting out why you wish to apply for this role and what skills you will bring to this position to Will Horwitz at will.horwitz@studenthubs.org. Purpose of placement:
To lead development of Student Hubs’ provision of Just Careers advice for students and graduates. It’s time for a culture shift in graduate careers: 1) A socially-just career will no longer be ‘alternative’. Graduates will make sure their career, whatever it is, is socially just: a Just Career. 2) People will easily be able to access information to inform their decision to pursue a Just Career. We believe that a Just Career: - Is not a ‘sector’, it’s an aspiration.
- Is not necessarily an alternative to a lucrative career
- Is up to the individual – what does ‘just’ mean to you?
We will be the first generation for whom social and environmental considerations will be pervasive – whatever you do, you will engage with the world around you. Working with careers advisors, national organisations and students, you will begin the process of bringing this change about. |
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4. Oxford Liberty - RUM AND RIGHTSLongroom, New College Mon 8th week, 7.30pm **OXFORD STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY** invite you to 'Rum and Rights', an informal forum for discussion about topical human rights and civil liberties issues...with rum!
This week's topic will be: "Does the UK have an obligation to accept all valid asylum seekers and refugees?" Come along to have your say or just to sit back, listen and drink rum!
£2 for members/£3 for non-members (for the rum) or free if you sign up to OSFL on the door.
Look forward to seeing you there!!!
Visit our website www.oxfordstudentsforliberty.org for more info or contact details. |
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5. Baroness Cox - MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNIONThursday 8th Week (12 June), 8.30 pm, Trinity College, Sutro Room Oxford University Russian Society:
Baroness Cox "The Privilege of Making a Difference: in the context of the challenges for countries in transition in the former Soviet Union"
Refreshments will be provided
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=29863574752 (if you are on facebook and would like to come, please register your interest)
Baroness Cox is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords, and campaigner for many humanitarian causes in post-Soviet Republics.
Baroness Cox is Chief Executive of HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust), President of the Trustees of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a Patron of the Medical Aid for Poland Fund; a Trustee of MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International), a Trustee of the Metta Trust for Children's Education, a non-executive director of the Andrei Sakarov Foundation, an International representative for Elam Ministries, chairperson of the British Armenia All-Party Parliamentary. She is also a member of the Standing Conference on Women's Organisations, honorary vice-chairman of the International Islamic Christian Organisation for Reconciliation and Reconstruction and on the advisory council to MigrationWatch.
Baroness Cox is a Eurosceptic. The issue of contemporary slavery has also been at the forefront of Cox' activities. In 1995 she won the William Wilberforce Award, named in honour of the former MP who led the fight to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire, for her humanitarian work generally.
Her amazing life story and courageous work as a campaigner are chronicled in the book by Andrew Boyd "Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless". |
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6. REFUGEE WEEK 2008 - June 14th-June 21stDifferent Pasts, Shared Future
This Refugee week several groups across Oxford including Student Action for Refugees, Asylum Welcome and Actors for Human Rights have got together to organise a whole range of events right on your doorstep, everything from entertainment, art and culture, to educational activities and a Town Hall meeting. Scroll down the list of events and come along to help celebrate sanctuary in Oxford and across the UK.
For more information visit www.refugeeweek.org. Hope to see you there!
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1. Play: Asylum Monologues
When: Sat 14th of June, 7pm
Where: The Gardeners Arms, on Plantation Road, Jericho
Cost: Free entry All welcome
A wonderful and thought-provoking production, this moving series of monologues gives first hand accounts of the UK's asylum system in the words of people who have experienced it. A unique performance with live musical accompaniment.
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2. Film: The Art of Flight
When: Sunday 15th of June, 1pm
Where: The Ultimate Picture Palace, on Cowley Road
Cost: £3.00
A guerrilla documentary shot in Egypt on camcorders, this extraordinary film documents the plight of Sudanese refugees trying to leave Egypt where they have taken refuge.
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3. Town Hall Meeting: How We Treat Those Seeking Sanctuary in the UK
When: Monday 16th of June, 7pm to 9.30pm
Where: Oxford Town Hall
Cost: Free- All Welcome
Keynote speaker Tariq Ali
Followed by a panel discussion with:
Natasha Walter
Melanie McFadyean
Innocent Empi
Melissa Benn.
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4. Community event: Refugee Week Jamboree: Celebrating Sanctuary
When: Saturday 21st of June, 2-5pm
Where: Mary Magdalen Church, bottom of Cornmarket Street, just opposite Debenhams.
(Entertainment and speakers on Cornmarket from 2 to 3pm)
Music, art and crafts, stalls, cakes, free henna and face painting...Come along to find out more! |
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7. UNICEF - COMMITTEE POSITIONSHey there!
We at UNICEF have an exciting proposition for you...we are planning to hold a ball in aid of UNICEF UK either at the end of Michaelmas or beginning of Hilary, and are setting up a committee to organise this! This is a great opportunity to get involved in what will be a large scale event.
Positions up for grabs are
-Treasurer
-Secretary
-IT
-Publicity
-Sponsorship
-Food
-Drink
-Musical Entz
-Non-musical Entz
-Logistics
-Flair and Decor
If you are at all interested in getting involved please contact either alice.yandle@worc.ox.ac.uk or francesca.lamarque@worc.ox.ac.uk.
Thanks very much!
Becky Derbyshire
President of UNICEF Oxford |
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8. Platform2 - free 10 week life changing experience overseasAre you – or do you know anyone – 18-25 years old? If so, take a look at www.myplatform2.com as you or they may be eligible for a free government funded life changing experience in a developing country such as Ghana, South Africa, India or Peru. This is a fantastic one off opportunity aimed at those who would not otherwise be able to afford a gap year experience.
The trips are 10 weeks long, with a 1 week in-country orientation and then 9 weeks at the project. A three day residential follows return to the UK where we will help volunteers make sense of their experience and act on it through telling their story in creative ways in the UK to raise development awareness.
Typical projects include constructing community buildings, caring for and teaching children, building infrastructure at eco centres, and assisting in HIV clinics. The important thing is that they involve living among a local community, getting an opportunity to make a meaningful difference to that community, and then coming back inspired to tell your story back in the UK.
A few places are still available for July and August departures. An immediate application might secure a July placement. Otherwise, please make sure you apply by 20 June in order to secure an August placement. |
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9. Oxfam Change Youth courseAre you amazing? Do you want to Change the world?
If so, Oxfam wants to hear from you!
Oxfam knows that the real way to make lasting change is through people taking action, through people making their voices heard, through people demanding to change minds.
“Many little things done by many little people, will change the face of the World”
Following on from the successful programme over the last 3 years, Oxfam is giving 35 young people an amazing opportunity to receive specialist training and knowledge for campaigning on development issues. We are running an all expenses paid 4-day residential training course in Birmingham from 19 – 22 September 2008, which will equip you with everything you need to know to make an impact in the fight against poverty and suffering.
What do we ask in return? Only for you to put these skills and knowledge to good use in your own community. At the end of the course everyone will draw up an individual action plan, and on returning to your community you will link up with other Change Graduates in your area to try to effect lasting Change.
If you are aged between 18 and 25, relish a challenge and you have the time and energy to commit to changing the world, Oxfam would like to hear from you.
To find out more please visit:
http://www.oxfam.co.uk/get_involved/campaign/actions/change_youth.html
The closing date for applications is Monday 23 June 2008. |
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11. Red Cross: INTERNSHIPSThe Humanitarian Diplomacy Unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offers five paid internships for a period of one year. The internships begin at different dates, all between January and April 2009. UDH_Internships_2009.doc |
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