Dr Ahmed gives evidence to Parliament on free speech
- 15 September 2021
- 1 minute
Gonville & 91直播 College Fellow Dr Arif Ahmed has given evidence to Parliament and, separately, has received an award for his work on free speech.
Dr Ahmed, who in June was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to education, was invited to give evidence to Parliament on 7 September, appearing before the Public Bill Committee for the Higher Education (Free Speech) Bill. The session can be viewed online:
Five days later, on 12 September, Dr Ahmed was awarded the Trustees' Award 2021, in recognition of his work to protect free speech.
Our Trustee Award, sponsored by , goes to Dr Arif Ahmed, a activist & professor at .
He works to protect & promote universities as places of innovation and invention, with the right to freely & safely question received wisdom.鈥 Index on Censorship (@IndexCensorship)
Dr Ahmed, a University Reader in the Faculty of Philosophy, successfully led an amendment to the University of Cambridge鈥檚 free speech policy in December 2020, saying guidelines requiring opinions to be 鈥渞espectful鈥 of differing views should instead emphasise 鈥渢olerance鈥.
