Prof. Rachael Dixey Inaugural Lecture - Health, Social Justice & Access to Learning VT2213

The Faculty of Health's Professor Rachael Dixey delivered her inaugural lecture on Thursday evening in the iconic Rose Bowl.

The lecture 'Health, Social Justice and Access to Learning' considered the relationships globally between health inequalities and education, exploring ideas of education as liberatory and empowering, and consequently how this impacts on the politics of health.

Professor Dixey is the head of Health Promotion at Leeds Met. She has a lifelong interest in Africa, doing PhD research in the 1970s on access to primary schooling in Botswana. Inspired by the politics of health inequalities, Rachael is committed to improving health globally.

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