Course: Humanist Lives, with Alice Roberts

Paul Lamb is a campaigner for the right to die, fighting for a change in the law to allow assisted dying in the UK. Paul was severely injured in a …

Dr Michael Irwin was Medical Director of the UN in New York, and is a long-time campaigner for assisted dying. In 2009 he established what is now called My Death, …

Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in human rights and civil liberties. She has acted for Humanists UK in a series of cases relating to …

Diane Munday was a key member of the Abortion Law Reform Association when the Abortion Law was changed in Britain in 1968. She has continued to campaign to liberalise abortion …

Humanist education campaigns are not only concerned with education about religion and belief. Lisa Hallgarten is Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Brook, a young people’s sexual health and …

Neil McKain is Head of Religious Studies at Pipers Corner School in Buckinghamshire. He is member of the Executive of the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE).

In the UK, all schools must teach religious education (RE). Historically, the subject has involved the study of Christianity, more recently other major world religions were included, and today it …

Ruth Wareham is the Education Campaigns Manager at Humanists UK. Before joining Humanists UK she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Faith Schooling: Principles and Policies project based in …

Education is essential for freedom. If whole domains of knowledge are inaccessible to you because of a lack of education, then your freedom to make an open choice about what …

Richy Thompson is the Director of Public Affairs and Policy at Humanists UK.

‘Secularism’ is an overloaded term – one upon which people have put too many different meanings. However, the most common meaning, and the one that this course adopts, is equal …

Humanists typically consider human rights to be extremely useful instruments in guaranteeing that freedom is maximised for all. Human rights guarantee certain protections for citizens against the state. They guarantee …

Andrew Copson is Chief Executive of Humanists UK. He became Chief Executive in 2010 after five years coordinating Humanists UK’s education and public affairs work. Andrew is also the current …

This week we’ll learn about the importance of freedom to humanists: freedom to choose what we believe; freedom to choose how we live; and freedom to find what makes us …

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