Helen Birtwistle

Helen Birtwistle is resources and communications manager for the Institute of Ideas’ Debating Matters Competition, an innovative and engaging new style of debating competition for sixth form students in the UK. She completed a Masters course in Intellectual and Cultural History at the University of London in September 2005.

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Should physician-assisted dying be legalised?

Sunday 1 November 2009, 5.30pm Courtyard Gallery
Is the NHS institutionally ageist?



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