New Leader ? - Time for a serious communities strategy at last
Event Details
Join us as we welcome Professor Francis Davis to discuss “New Leader ? – Time for a serious communities strategy at last”
Event Details
Join us as we welcome Professor Francis Davis to discuss “New Leader ? – Time for a serious communities strategy at last”
About the talk
Most communities have their heads down building family, making work happen, paying bills, and planning with hope. But there’s a new social turbulence in so many neighbourhoods, old and fresh grievances breaking into the open from Southport to Southampton, and an absence of a clear and powerful strategy of response from government and business alike.
Drawing on new research and building on the moment that likely national leadership changes afford, Francis will map out some of the voices and a bolder framework for action for those of us from Mosques, localities and government alike.
This programme will be face to face and streamed online and will end with Salaat.
We will be streaming the programme live on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/sicmtv
If you would like to recite Qur’an during the programme, please do let us know: email us: info@sicm.org.uk
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Location
Mahfil Ali
39 Gloucester Road, North Harrow
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Speaker
Professor Francis Davis is a social and political scientist who works at the intersection
of business, civil society, and central and local governments.
Previously on the faculty at Birmingham he is now Honorary Professor and
working with and beyond the university, including on various media
outlets.
His recent projects focus on public service reform, complex community
challenges and inclusive private sector investment; and have included
collaborations with the local government ministries and business and
civil society sectors of Rwanda, Pakistan, Iraq, Israel/Palestine,
Bangladesh, South Africa and the UK. He has published on the ‘Radical
Right’ and ‘the Religious Right’.
He has had spells as a UK ministerial advisor – including at cabinet
level – under three governments, an NHS Trust non – executive director
(chair of finance) and have recently given invited lectures at the
Universities of Paris, Oxford, Antwerp, Leuven, and Dublin and
leadership gatherings in Karachi, Islamabad, Dhakar , Kigali and Fordham
University, New York City.
He also has experience in private, public and social enterprise leadership winning a The Observer
UK Social Enterprise of the Year Award, Royal Society of Arts Catalyst
award for social innovation and , in 2025, a UK Muslim Community
Association national award for empowerment of British Muslims by a non
Muslim.
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