Showing posts with label Welcome Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Welcome Week. Show all posts

Monday, 23 September 2024

LSHTM Chaplaincy Welcome Week Presentation

Frieze outside the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street by  P.R.Morley Horder

It is a great privilege to serve as Honorary Chaplain to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I work as part of the Student Support Services Team and at the start of each year we offer welcome presentations and hold a ‘marketplace’ (a post-graduate version of a freshers fair) for new students, many of whom are studying one year Masters Degrees, often travelling from overseas, leaving behind families and friends and having never visited London before.

Here is an approximation of my ‘welcome’ speech which I have given over various presentations to different grounds of students today:

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