1 February 2001
Family lecture
The Saturday evening public lecture series at the University of Dundee
continues this week with an insight into the role of the modern family
delivered by Mary McLeod of the National Family and Parenting Institute
in London.
Formerly of Childline and the Universities of North London and
Edinburgh,she has written widely about child and family welfare, child protection,
bullying, issues for boys, children and racism, and a study of
children's views on family relationship problems. Mary is an Honorary research
Fellow at the University of Warwick.
This lecture is the third in the January series of Saturday evening
lectures at the University of Dundee. This winter's programme deals with
various contentious issues ranging from climate change to the ethics of
the internet. Rounding off the series on 17 February will be Lord Robertson,
Secretary General of NATO lecturing in his alma mater on the place of
NATO and the challenges of the new millennium.
"The Family and its discontents" will be delivered at 7pm on Saturday 3
February in the Tower Extension lecture theatre. Everyone is welcome and
admission is free.