Campaigners set to be honoured by university.TWO women who have campaigned against domestic violence towards women and children in the North East's black and ethnic minority communities are to be honoured for their work by Newcastle University. Parveen Akhtar and Parmjit Kaur Mattu will be awarded honorary Doctor of Civil Law degrees by the Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University, Professor Chris Brink Chris Brink is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom. From 2002-2007 he was the Vice-chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. , at a ceremony on April 3. They will receive their awards alongside Newcastle-born playwright and dramatist, Lee Hall, writer of the screenplay for the 1999 film, Billy Elliot, which gained him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and Newcastle University Naval Architecture naval architecture, science of designing ships. A naval architect must consider especially the following factors: floatability, i.e., the ability of the ship to remain afloat while meeting the requirements of the vessel's service under normal and abnormal weather and graduates, Richard Sadler and Choo Chiau Beng. Ms Akhtar and Ms Mattu were founder members of Panah, the first black women's refuge in the North East. In 2006, they were awarded the Equality North East Award in recognition of their work on domestic violence. Both women have been advisers on and contributors to Government policy on domestic abuse, race relations race relations Noun, pl the relations between members of two or more races within a single community race relations npl → relaciones fpl raciales , and equality and diversity. Lee Hall has been behind some of the most innovative stage and screen productions in recent years, including Cooking with Elvis Cooking with Elvis is dark comedy by playwright Lee Hall which was first performed in 1999 in Edinburgh. The farce was adapted from a play the author wrote for the award winning BBC Radio God's Country series and premiered in 1999 in Edinburgh. and The Pitmen Painters. Richard Sadler is now the chief executive officer of the marine organisation, Lloyd's Register, while Choo Chiau Beng is chairman and chief executive officer of Keppel Offshore and Marine Ltd and senior executive director of Keppel Corporation Ltd, which is one of Singapore's most important multinational companies. |
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