Parliamentary awards - A great success
Pollination Campaigns organised a highly successful Parliamentary event for UCL’s Deafness, Cognition and Language Centre. The occasion was an awards ceremony for the Its My Future: Being Deaf in 2018 competition, part the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science.
The event was hosted by Malcolm Bruce MP, chair of the all party parliamentary group on deafness, who also acted as a judge for the competition. Rosie Cooper MP presented the prizes and a significant number of Parliamentarians attended the event. Also present were board members of Royal Institute of the Deaf, British Deaf Association and National Deaf Children’s Society along with competition winners and their families.
The objective of the competition and awards was for DCAL, as a leading academic research centre, to engage with young deaf people as potential contributors and participants in deaf research. The high profile Parliamentary event also aimed to raise the profile of DCAL and its research amongst their key audiences of Parliamentarians, special advisors and civil servants with an interest in deafness or higher education research and organisations representing deaf people.
Pollination Campaigns produced a short report which brought together the key points from all the competition entries, as well as publishing the winning and two runner up entries. This was distributed to those unable to attend the ceremony and published on DCAL’s website. The competition, awards ceremony and report have attracted substantial coverage from sector and other press.
You can read the report of the competition entries at http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/news/BeingDeaf.pdf (external link)
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updated: 22/04/2008