In the final session of this course, Stanley Stott-Hall revisits the skills and lessons from the past 8-weeks. Students will consolidate what they’ve learnt, concluding their journey through the various crucial aspects of confident speaking.

Stanley Stott-Hall continues to explore Presentations, using this session to explore and discuss the respective benefits and downsides of both online and in-person delivery.

- Contexts in which presentations are delivered.

- What is the aim of a presentation?

- Visual: how to design a presentation, the softwares available, and using effective visual cues.

- Spoken: how to ensure what is heard and seen form a coherent message.

- Flashcards and how to use them.

- Full mock debate over motion selected by students and presided over by tutor.

- Debate following conventional rebuttal structures used in debating societies.

- Constructive critique offered after conclusion of debate

- Open conversation regarding student’s key strengths and areas for improvement, and how these might be taken forward with our work on public speaking in general.

Debating: speaking and responding:

- What is debating, when does it happen, and why might it be important?

- Workshop involving familiarisation with technical debating frameworks and terms.

- Mini exercise related to the quick responses required of a successful debater.

- Working in teams in a debate.

- Developing further the skillset of the talented public speaker.

- The importance of physical and vocal warmups.

- Delivering a brilliant speech online in a digital age.

- Speech workshop based on what the students have prepared at home.

Stanley Stott-Hall leads the second session of our Public Speaking Course, The Art of the Speech:

- What is public speaking and when might it be important?

- Exemplar speeches, past and present.

- Body, voice and word: the skillset of a talented public speaker.

- How to write a speech; how to build towards an effective delivery.

Stanley Stott-Hall begins our 8-week Public Speaking Course! One of the most important skills young people can develop, this course will examine all aspects of confident speaking, from Presenting and Speeches, to the Art of Debating.

In final class of the wonderful Political Philosophy series, Luke Dunne focuses his attention on feminism.

In the penultimate talk of the Political Philosophy series, Luke Dunne considers the theory and history of socialism.

Luke Dunne uses the sixth session of the Political Philosophy series to discuss the ethics of war and peace by considering a series of historical conflicts, as well as controversies of war.

In the fifth part of this series, Luke Dunne introduces the justice system, with a system on criminal justice in particular.

Luke Dunne returns for the fourth episode of the Political Philosophy series, and picks up another key political idea - equality.

In the third part of Luke Dunne’s series on Political Philosophy, he focuses on a core political idea - freedom.

This session has taken place, you can watch the recording here.

Luke Dunne’s second talk on Political Philosophy uses the recent U.S. election as a vehicle to discuss the process of democracy.

This session has taken place, you can watch the recording here.

Luke Dunne, in the first of the Political Philosophy talks, discusses the meaning of democracy and explores its history and variations as well as debating its value.

This session has taken place, you can watch the recording here.