It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the USA, ‘500 year’ storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually (Wallace-Wells, 2019: inside cover).

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in this guest lecture Josef Konvitz, Chair, PASCAL Observatory, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow and former Head, Urban Affairs and Regulatory Policy Divisions at OECD, will explore how sustainable neighbourhoods might help cities respond to challenges of globalisation and widening inequality.

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This is the monthly e-Bulletin from FACE (the Forum for Access and Continuing Education), offered to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and others with an interest in access, widening participation and lifelong learning. In this month's issue PASCAL Director and FACE Executive Member Michael Osborne provides an update on the highly impactful work he and others are doing on Learning Cities.

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This conference will explore the roles of adult education and lifelong learning in addressing social, economic and cultural divides between communities and higher education institutions. The purposes and effectiveness of universities’ civic engagement strategies and the role(s) of adult education are the subject of much current debate.

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In this issue we feature 7 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

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The RMIT EU Centre of Excellence, Social and Global Studies Centre is delighted to welcome Associate Professor Michito Tsuruoka from Keio University to speak at a roundtable on ‘Japanese Perspectives on Brexit’.

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