Board

We will soon be recruiting new Board members to help us develop and take forward our organisation in 2012 and beyond. If you might be interested in joining our Board, please contact Jenny Kemp (jenny.kemp@zerotolerance.org.uk). We will publish more information about this on our news pages soon so watch this space.

Lesley Orr - Acting Chair

Lesley is a feminist historian, writer and activist, currently based at the University of Edinburgh, and previously at Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) where her task was to develop national education and training for the Scottish Government’s Strategy to address Violence Against Women. In the 1990s she coordinated a University of Edinburgh action-research project: Out of the Shadows: Christianity and Violence Against Women in Scotland. Along with Eurig Scandrett and SWA colleagues she has pioneered the innovative course in gender justice, masculinities and violence at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh.

For over twenty years, Lesley has been involved in movements challenging gender inequality abuse and violence against women: working in a local Women’s Aid group, campaigning, transnational networks, advocacy and education. She was consultant to the World Council of Churches project: ‘Overcoming Violence Against Women’. Lesley has been active in feminist and political organisations including A Woman’s Claim of Right for Scotland, Engender and the Lydia Project (capacity building for women-run social projects in Eastern Europe), and has been a Zero Tolerance Trustee for the past seven years.

Kainde Manji

Kainde Manji Works for Close the Gap, a Scottish Government funded initiative that works to develop and enable activity to close the gender pay gap in Scotland. Prior to this she spent two years as sabbatical women’s officer for NUS Scotland where she campaigned on a number of issues including securing an additional £2million in childcare funding for student parents in Scotland. She has also worked for Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance and spent a gap year volunteering in South Africa with children and adult survivors of childhood abuse.

Eurig Scandrett

Eurig Scandrett is lecturer in Sociology at Queen Margaret University and programme leader for courses in gender and social and environmental justice. Previously he spent 15 years in adult education and campaigning on environmental, peace and gender issues. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology and member of the Iona Community.

Margaret Small

Margaret Small was a Children's Reporter for over 32 years working in and around the Glasgow area. She is Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Association for the Study of Offending, and was recently seconded to the Scottish Government as Getting it Right for Every Child Pathfinder Coordinator (Domestic Abuse). The aim of the Pathfinder was to improve the response to children exposed to domestic abuse, encouraging local partners to look at their culture, systems and practice and make the changes necessary.

Professor Lyn Tett

Professor Lyn Tett is Professor of Community Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Edinburgh; her research has involved investigation of factors such as class, gender, disability that lead to exclusion of adults from post-compulsory education and of actions community education might take to promote social inclusion.