Sanctuary Seekers’ Unit
Breaking Barriers Refugee Week 2024
This year, we were pleased to be joined by a number of universities around the UK which held Refugee Week events from 1 to 8 March 2024.
Previous events
2024
Watch our 2024 events on Leicester University of Sanctuary's YouTube channel.
2023
Watch our 2023 events on Leicester University of Sanctuary's YouTube channel.
- Citizens of Change Panel Discussion: Setting up a charity that supports refugees
- Introducing the RefugEAP Programme
- Researching Refugeedom (3rd Edition)
- Responding to the Ukraine Crisis: a collaborative cross-university model of practice
- Is Service-learning the future of Higher Education to foster Citizens of Change? Theory, implementation, and the case study of the Access to Law Bus
2022
Watch our 2022 events on Leicester University of Sanctuary's YouTube channel.
- Bright Path Futures - a project supporting Afghans who were recently forced to flee their country
- Researching Refugeedom
- Workshop for refugee-background students interested in a future career in Medicine and Healthcare
- Sanctuary Scholarships for distance-learning academic programmes
- Citizens of Change Discussion Panel - Journeys into volunteering and activism
2021
Watch our 2021 events on Leicester University of Sanctuary's YouTube channel.
- We are Citizens of Change - Breaking Barriers at Leicester University of Sanctuary
- Researching Refugeedom
- Students supporting refugees and creating a culture of welcome
- Building resilience in challenging times - a talk with Angella Nazarian
- Syria's Secret Library - a talk with Mike Thomson
- Workshop for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK considering going to university