What have our students been doing?

SEEDS Sowing Empowering and Engaging Discussions on Substances

Students and alumni from across the globe launched 50 videos in 50 days (9 May – 26 June 2021) to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the Misuse of Drugs Act. The aim was to ‘seed’ conversations on important public health topics through their personal and professional networks.

SEEDS aims to help others access information and insights that advance conversations about drug policy and harm reduction, and more broadly around health policy, social and racial justice.

To commemorate the COP26 meeting, SEEDS also launched 13 videos about the links between drug policy and planetary health.

Conference presentations:

• Harm Reduction International’s Constellation Conference - in November 2021, students presented at this conference
• Society for Applied Anthropology – students presented at the Society’s annual meeting

Outreach, training, action and visits

April 2022

• Activist training with Transform and Anyone’s Child
• Public Health outreach day at Altab Ali Park with activist Peter Krykant and harm reduction service Providence Row
• House of Lords visit with Baroness Jenny Jones

June 2022

• Day of action: working with Transform and Anyone’s Child to plan a day of action at Houses of Parliament as part of the Support Don’t Punish global day of action