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SUMMARY:CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan\, Africa's Voices  - 
 Sharath Srinivasan\, Director\, Africa's Voices
DTSTART:20180228T170000Z
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CONTACT:Romy Schirrmeister
DESCRIPTION:*UPDATE: This talk is part of the teach-outs program due to so
 lidarity with the strike!\nDr Srinivasan is joining academic colleagues on
  strike on 28 February and will not enter University premises for work. HO
 WEVER\, in his capacity as Director of Africa's Voices\, this talk WILL GO
  AHEAD at King's College\, Audit Room! \n*\n\nPlease register "here":https
 ://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-series-sharath-srinivasan-director-
 africas-voices-tickets-43435436560 \n\n\nPlease join us for a talk\, Q&A a
 nd drinks with Sharath Srinivasan\, reflecting on his work and this sphere
  of work in general.\n\n*Sharath Srinivasan* As Co-Director of the Centre
  of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge\, Sharath c
 onceived of Africa’s Voices within a larger research programme and deve
 loped it into an independent charity. How can citizens\, writ large\, bet
 ter influence social and political change in Africa? His research is fir
 mly grounded in a career prior to academia in international aid. With Afr
 ica’s Voices\, he marries this with skills developed as a strategy consu
 ltant at McKinsey & Co. Initially trained in Law\, he holds an MPhil and 
 DPhil from Oxford University and is a Fellow of King’s College\, Cambri
 dge. Sharath is currently based in Nairobi.\n\n*Africa’s Voices* emerged
  out of four years of research at the University of Cambridge’s Centre f
 or Governance and Human Rights (CGHR)\, on Politics and Interactive Media 
 in Africa.\nWith strong interest from initial collaborators\, in 2014 Afri
 ca’s Voices launched as an independent\, non-profit research organisatio
 n and registered UK charity. "Find out more about Africa’s Voices":http:
 //www.africasvoices.org\n\n*About the CGHR Practitioner Series:*\n\nFor th
 ose hoping to pursue a career in the ‘Third Sector’\, especially amids
 t a broad range of organisations and agencies whose mandates can be loosel
 y collected under the umbrella headings of ‘Human Rights and Social Just
 ice’\, ‘Conflict and Security’ or ‘Development and Humanitarian Ai
 d\,’ the terrain can be difficult to navigate. A sound academic training
 \, the kind provided by Cambridge University\, is important but certainly 
 not enough to prepare students for the transition into working in this sec
 tor. Through a mixture of substantive discussion\, personal reflection and
  practical advice\, the CGHR Practitioner Series brings together high‐le
 vel experts working in these fields and creates a forum in which students 
 and researchers can listen and ask questions about what this work actually
  involves\, seek out reflections from experience on the dilemmas and chall
 enges faced\, and probe the skill set and experience needed to forge a car
 eer in these fields.
LOCATION:King's  Audit Room\, King's College
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