The Lord Morris of Memorial

INAUGURAL LECTURE 2016 Thursday 3rd November 6:30pm – 9:00pm Martin Harris Centre for Music & Drama The

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson This event has been organised by The University of Manchester’s Disabled Staff Network in conjunction with Lord Morris’ family (Lady Morris and Gill Morris), Mike Kane MP, the Manchester Trades Union Council (MTUC), North West TUC Disability Forum, University of Manchester Students’ Union and the University’s Equality and Diversity Office. Professor Clive Agnew (Vice President, Teaching Learning and Students). PLEASE NOTE: Entry to this event is by ticket only – SPECIAL GUEST MC:

please go to nadsn-uk.org/LMMML2016 Victoria McDonald, On behalf of the University of Manchester it is my great pleasure to welcome you to Health and Social Care the Lord Morris of Manchester Memorial Inaugural Lecture. This lecture recognises Date: Thursday 3rd November 2016 Correspondent at Lord Morris’ lifetime commitment to promoting rights and equality for disabled people. Time: 18:30 – 21:00 Channel 4 News We are fortunate to be joined in this event by distinguished guests, friends and Venue: Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, colleagues who knew Lord Morris and who have been inspired by his achievements “This event, of which I am so proud Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama (MHC), through legislation and his extensive campaigning. The University is honoured to have to be a part, is both to honour The University of Manchester Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson as the inaugural speaker, I note that she is listed in and cherish all that Lord Morris 2016 as the most influential disabled person in Britain! achieved and it is also to remind us that there is much more to do Although most of my working day is devoted to students, as a member of the University’s to make society a better and fairer Senior Leadership Team I also act as the ‘Champion’ for the Disabled Staff Network. I was place for disabled people.” FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @UoMDSN therefore proud that the work of colleagues in the DSN was recently recognised by their being shortlisted in 2015 for the Inclusive Networks Awards. This was preceded by a highly praised conference, ‘What are we hiding?’ which Please submit your questions for the Panel Q&A addressed issues around hidden disabilities. It is important that we are able to discuss disability openly and I am using #LordMorrisMcrLecture looking forward to the presentations and discussion with our panel members.

PROGRAMME I hope you enjoy the evening.

Clive TIME SESSION

18:30 - 19:00 Registration, Meet & Greet in MHC Foyer Lord Morris of Manchester AO QSO PC (1928-2012) Baroness Grey-Thompson DBE DL - Student Ambassadors on duty - Arts Exhibition and Videos by Venture Arts and DaDaFest “ If we could bequeath one Baroness Grey-Thompson - Café Arts open for attendees to purchase refreshments precious gift to posterity, I will deliver the inaugural would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion lecture, as our special 19:00 All members of the audience seated in the Concert Hall for long-term sick and disabled guest speaker people; where understanding 19:00 - 19:10 Choral Performance is unostentatious and sincere; by Ad Solem Chamber Choir and Seashell Trust Signing Choir where needs come before means; where if years cannot be added to their lives, at least life 19:10 - 19:15 Official Welcome from The University of Manchester can be added to their years. ” by Prof Clive Agnew, Vice President for Teaching, Learning & Students

About Lord Morris of Manchester About our Special Guest Speaker 19:15 - 19:55 Inaugural Lecture by The Rt Hon The Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE DL Alf Morris was born and brought up in Manchester Tanni Grey-Thompson graduated from Loughborough and served as the Labour Co-op MP for , University in 1991 with a BA(Hons) in Politics and Social 19:55 - 20:30 Interactive Q&A session with a Panel of Distinguished Guests: Manchester, between 1964 and 1997 - 33 years! Administration and went on to pursue a famous and - Baroness Grey-Thompson He campaigned tirelessly to challenge the barriers decorated career in para-sports as a wheelchair racer. - Jane Cordell that disabled people face in everyday life. In 1970 Alf Tanni was made a Dame in 2005 for “services to sport” successfully brought in the Chronically Sick and and entered the House of Lords in 2010 as a Life Peer - Kate Nash OBE Disabled Persons Act, a ground-breaking piece of on the Crossbenches. Tanni was installed as Chancellor - Tom McAlpine OBE legislation - the first in the world to recognise the rights of Northumbria University in July 2015 and was named of disabled people and set down specific requirements Number 1 on the Power 100 list of Britain’s most 20:30 - 20:35 Reflections for access and support. In 1974 he became the world’s influential disabled people in 2016! Tanni is currently by Lemn Sissay MBE, Chancellor of The University of Manchester firstMinister for Disabled People and introduced Patron of the Snowdon Trust, which supports disabled a Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill in 1991. He also students to access further and higher education and 20:35 - 20:40 Vote of Thanks went on to establish the Motability Scheme which training. Tanni has spent summer 2016 in Rio de by Mike Kane MP transformed the lives of so many people. In 1997, Alf Janeiro to coach and support the latest generation was elevated to the Peerage as the Baron Morris of ParalympicsGB competitors! Tanni is a renowned 20:40 - 21:00 Event ends and audience departs of Manchester. He continued to scrutinise the public speaker. We are thrilled that Tanni accepted Gill government and campaign for the rights of disabled Morris’s invitation to deliver the inaugural lecture in Alf’s PLEASE NOTE: There will be photography and video capturing during this event. Please inform us if you people in the House of Lords. The Victoria University of memory. would prefer not to feature in any of these. Manchester conferred an honorary doctorate degree on Alf in 1998. He died on 12th August 2012, survived “It happened first in Manchester” by his wife Irene (Lady Morris) and four children. - a historic account of Alf Morris’s era and the height of the disability rights movement, written by Lorraine Gradwell MBE especially for this event is now available online. Jane Cordell: Founder CEO of Getting Equal, Co-Director of Result CIC, Chair of DaDaFest, ex-diplomat in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Kate Nash OBE: the world’s leading Disability Networkologist, Creator of PurpleSpace, Consultant for the Business Disability Forum, Ambassador for Disability Rights UK

Tom McAlpine OBE: Chair of the Trustees of Moodswings, nationally- acclaimed professional in mental health and wellbeing support Q&A PANEL

Our VIPs will include the Lord Lieutenant of , the Deputy Lord Mayor of Manchester, the Mayor and PCC of Greater Manchester, local MPs, Manchester Councillors, University officers, organisers, sponsors, supporters, and special guests. Our Chancellor, Lemn Sissay MBE, will welcome all of our VIPs at the pre-event Reception. VIPS

We are indebted to the following organisations for • Ai Media their generous financial support towards this event: • Manchester Airport Group • The University of Manchester • Randstad UK • Equality & Diversity

• Office for Social Responsibility • The Co-operative Party UK and Manchester & District • Office of the President & Vice-Chancellor

• • Student Recruitment & Widening Participation DisabledGo

• The Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama • University of Manchester Students’ Union

• The Manchester Museum

SPONSORS • The Co-operative Group

• UNISON Transport for Greater Manchester Branch