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Creating impact is what social enterprises are all about. It's also crucial for social enterprises to be able to measure and present the impact they make. Come along to this free event, exclusively for SEUK members, to hear expert panellists discuss the challenges and opportunities surrounding impact creation and measurement. While it sometimes seems that every social enterprise must find its own way, research from KCL reveals some general principles and strategies that set successful social enterprises apart. The panel discussion will begin by introducing different strategies to enhance your social impact and address some key questions: What are the critical levers for creating social impact and stimulating social change?; What are the benefits and challenges of different strategies?; What are the implications for your enterprise’s internal organisation and employees? The conversation will then move on to discuss how you can best measure and report on the impact of your work. Doing so has many benefits including improved access to finance, productivity gains, process improvements, and higher employee motivation. But measuring social impact is also fraught with challenges. It can often prove to be either too hard, too expensive or sometimes both. Questions arise about impact measurement such as: How do you measure the impact of intangible value drivers? How do you make sense of this data when impact across areas is hard to compare? And how do you really use this information to influence your strategy? Join us at this event to unpack these questions and to learn about how impact measurement can be used in your organisation as a source of strategic advantage rather than a check-box exercise. The panel discussion will be followed by the opportunity to network with other SEUK members and share your experience with fellow social entrepreneurs. Refeshments will be provided. Agenda Registration – 5.30pm Opening Remarks – 6pm Moderated panel discussion – 6:45pm Panellists: Ute Stephan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s College London Dr Kamini Gupta, Lecturer at King’s Business School Community Shop, the UK’s first social supermarket chain and winner of the 2018 Social Enterprise UK Award in the “Prove it: Social Impact” category Recycling Lives, recognised as a UK leader for combining business and charity. Using commercial operations in recycling and waste management to support and sustain charity programmes for offender rehabilitation, residential support and food redistribution. Audience Q&A – 7.15pm Networking – 7.30pm This is a SEUK member only networking event.

With a rapidly expanding space industry and a newly founded Space Agency, Australia is looking skyward for both economic growth and scientific discovery. This lecture discusses what might lie ahead and the unique role Australia can play in the future of space exploration. Due to limited availability, please ensure you register.  About our speaker Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS was appointed Vice-Chancellor of ANU in January 2016. Professor Schmidt is the 12th Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University (ANU). Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor Schmidt was an astrophysicist at the ANU Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics before becoming Vice-Chancellor. Professor Schmidt received undergraduate degrees in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Arizona in 1989, and completed his Astronomy Master's degree (1992) and PhD (1993) from Harvard University. Under his leadership, in 1998, the High-Z Supernova Search team made the startling discovery that the expansion rate of the Universe is accelerating. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, The United States Academy of Science, and the Royal Society, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2013.

The Maudsley Psychedelic Society is happy to host a screening of the documentary Magic Medicine.  Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Dr James Rucker and Dr Camilla Day (two psychiatrists who worked on the trial), Crispin Blunt MP (Conservative Party, Chairman of the Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group) and Jeff Smith MP (Labour Party). During the discussion panel, we will hold a Q&A, opening up the conversation to all those in attendance. Speaker Bios Dr James Rucker is a Consultant Psychiatrist and a Senior Clinical Lecturer in mood disorders and psychopharmacology at the Centre for Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London (UK). James completed his medical degree at University College London (UK) in 2003 before training in psychiatry at the Maudsley, Bethlem and Springfield Hospitals in South London. He completed his PhD in the molecular biology of mood disorders at King’s College London in 2012. He specialises clinically and academically in mental health problems predominantly associated with mood and is particularly interested in novel drug treatments and drug catalysed forms of psychotherapy in treatment resistant forms of depression and anxiety. He was a clinician in the first pilot study of psilocybin in treatment resistant depression led by Professor David Nutt at Imperial College London (UK). He currently holds a 5 year Clinician Scientist Fellowship awarded by the National Institute for Health Research to investigate psilocybin as a treatment for major depressive disorder resistant to standard treatments. He works with Professors Allan Young and Tony Cleare at the Centre for Affective Disorders, which is a specialist treatment centre for mood disorders and an academic health sciences centre for clinical trials in mood disorders and associated research. When he is not setting up clinical trials with psilocybin, he has an enduring love of electronic music in all its forms and will often be found at music festivals, where he also volunteers with charities that provide safe and supportive spaces for people having difficult drug experiences. He lives in South London. Dr Camilla Day is a ST6 General Adult Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust currently working in the Psychiatry Liaison department at St Thomas’ Hospital. She has an interest in psychiatric research, in particular psilocybin research, and many modalities of psychotherapy. She is also an honorary research associate for the Centre for Affective Disorders, Psychological Medicine Research Division , Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and is doing an MD Res investigating in particular the role of self-compassion in the psychological mechanism of effect via quantitative and qualitative methods. She will also be developing a pre-dose ‘set’ and ‘setting’ factor questionnaire and post-dose ‘self-compassion experience’ questionnaire to help to be able to predict psilocybin’s effect on people with treatment resistant depression in the future and shape the psychological support necessary. Crispin Blunt MP,  Member of Parliament for Reigate and co-chair of the APPG for Drug Policy Reform . Crispin was elected MP for Reigate in 1997 having formerly served as an army officer. In Parliament, Crispin has served in the Shadow Cabinet with briefs including trade and energy, and security and counter-terrorism. He has served as both Minister for Prisons and as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Crispin is currently co-chair of the APPG on Drug Policy Reform and the APPG for Humanism, secretary of the Global LGBT Rights APPG, and a Conservative Middle East Council Vice-Chair. This year Crispin set up and launched the Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group whose objective is to promote evidence-based drug policy reform on the centre right. Jeff Smith MP is the Labour MP for Manchester Withington, where he was born and raised. Before Jeff was elected in 2015, he had a career in event management and as a DJ in clubs and colleges across the north of England, seeing first-hand the central role music has played in Manchester’s history and culture. In 1997 he was elected as a councillor in my home ward of Old Moat, later becoming Executive Member for Education, for Finance and for Housing and Regeneration. In parliament, he seeks to represent the issues that matter to south Manchester residents, from the Government’s failure to fund local services to trying to maintain as close a partnership as possible with the EU following the Brexit referendum.   Tickets General entry: 15GBP Concession: 10GBP (Please enter the code 'discount' to receive the concession.) Ticket sales will be channeled back into the psychedelic research at KCL.

Antigen-specific humoral immune responses by CRISPR/Cas9-edited B cells Speaker: Harald Hartweger, The Rockefeller University Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) to HIV are protective against infection in animal models. However, a number of highly unusual features of bNAbs have hampered their elicitation by traditional immunization. We show that mature, primary mouse and human B cells can be edited in vitro using CRISPR/Cas9 to express mature bNAbs from the endogenous Igh locus and retain the ability to participate in humoral immune responses. Immunization with cognate antigen in wild type mouse recipients of edited B cells elicits bNAb titers associated with protection against infection. This approach enables humoral immune responses that may be difficult to elicit by traditional immunization. Speaker bio: Harald is originally from Austria. After studying molecular biology at the University of Graz and working on TLR signalling in macrophages and dendritic cells he finished his master’s degree at the University of Vienna and then embarked on a PhD with Victor Tybulewicz here in London at the former National Institute for Medical Research now the Francis Crick Institute. There he studied several proteins involved in both BCR and TCR signalling. For his postdoctoral training, he moved to the laboratory of Michel Nussenzweig at the Rockefeller University in New York City where he is currently developing B cell-based immunotherapies in particular for HIV.

This illustrated presentation will delve into the Thames’ unique and curious history from the past to present. London’s river has been a focus for sacred rites and popular superstition since ancient times. Items covered will include the ritual deposition of artefacts, legends, ghosts, Cleopatra's Needle, Deadman's Hole, the execution of pirates and modern murders, plus river ceremonial and customs. Join City Guide Robert Stephenson to learn more. ‘Part of Totally Thames 2019 that runs from 1-30 September www.totallythames.org

Book Event → Joint British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture Positive interactions with members of different groups can improve intergroup relations and change the way we think about the world. Yet people often fail to engage in such interactions. To navigate the diverse environment in which we live, it is important to develop skills and beliefs that will enable positive cross-group relationships. This talk will highlight some of the many benefits of engaging in intergroup contact and discuss interventions that can help to make people more confident in, and in turn more likely to successfully engage in, successful interactions with people from different backgrounds. Speaker: Professor Rhiannon Turner, Director of Research in the School of Psychology; Director in the Centre for Identity and Intergroup Relations, Queen’s University Belfast Rhiannon Turner is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Centre for Identity and Intergroup Relations at Queen’s University Belfast. She undertakes research on intergroup relations, with a specific focus on how intergroup contact can be used as a tool to change intergroup attitudes and behaviours. Chair: Professor Dominic Abrams FBA, Professor of Social Psychology; Director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes, University of Kent Organised in partnership with: Free, booking required As this event is free, not everyone who registers for tickets attends. To make sure we have a full house we allocate more tickets than there are seats. We do our best to get the numbers right, but unfortunately we occasionally have to disappoint people. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, so please arrive in good time for the start of the event. If you have any questions about this event, please refer to our Public Events FAQ. If your question is not answered, please email events@thebritishacademy.ac.uk.

Book Event → The conference aims to evaluate the many contributions of the Jewish community in Iraq within the spheres of the arts and culture, social policy, education, government and the economy in the early modern and modern period. Iraqi Jews constituted one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities and were in Iraq for over 2,500 years. There is a widening academic interest in the history and contributions of the Jewish community as well as growing interest in Jewish history in contemporary Iraq. This conference will bring together UK, Iraqi and international scholars interested in exploring and researching the contributions of this important community to modern Iraq. A draft programme is available.  This conference is organised by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq in collaboration with The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago and the Department of History, Religions and Philosophies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London RegistrationA registration fee is payable at the time of booking. For further information and details of how to book please click 'Book Event'.

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