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Nick Evans and Rotary worked together with One Hull Young Ambassadors as they prepared to go on the Round The World Clipper Race 2009-2010

Dr Nicholas J. Evans is a Lecturer in Diaspora History at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) and the Department of History at the University of Hull, UK.

 

A specialist in voluntary and coerced migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries he has previous worked at the universities of Leicester, Hull, Aberdeen and Cape Town, conducted research for the National Archives (London), and held research fellowships at the National Maritime Museum (London) and the Institute of Migration in Finland.

 

He currently holds a Research Councils of the United Kingdom Research Fellowship in Diaspora History which provides him with the opportunity to advise UK education bodies on compliance with the race relations and community cohesion legislation aimed specifically at primary and secondary schools. Since 2008 he has worked closely with Kingston upon Hull City Council and the East Riding of Yorkshire Council on issues of understanding diaspora history and growing multiculturalism in Britain.

 

To date he has worked with 45 primary, secondary and tertiary education institutions as part of http://www.whodowethinkweare.org  aimed at raising awareness surrounding immigration and diversity in the UK. 

 

In 2009-10 he organised the Ambassadors Programme in partnership with Rotary International District 1270 that supported 15 young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) during their preparation for the Round the World Clipper Yacht Race.  It is this latter project that he will be talking about at this District Conference.


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