Dame Elish Angiolini QC to give 2017 John Wheatley Lecture

Parkhead Housing Association has announced that the Rt Honourable Dame Elish Angiolini QC will deliver the 3rd annual John Wheatley Lecture in October 2017.

Dame Elish will follow in the footsteps of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Guardian columnist Owen Jones in delivering the now well-established lecture.

Dame Elish grew up in Govan in Glasgow and studied law at the University of Strathclyde, graduating in 1982. Immediately after graduation she joined the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and, following her traineeship, spent eight years as a depute procurator fiscal at Airdrie Sheriff Court.

Dame Elish became the first woman, first procurator fiscal and the first solicitor to hold the post of Solicitor General for Scotland. In 2006, she was installed as Lord Advocate, and remained in the post following the change in government in 2007, again being the first to do so.

Parkhead Housing Association in association with the Wheatley Group established the Annual John Wheatley lecture as a way of honouring the contribution of the former Member of Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston made to the social and housing policy agenda.

Parkhead chief executive, Jim Strang, said: “The John Wheatley Lecture is becoming an established event in the civic sector and we are very lucky and honoured to attract speakers of such calibre as Dame Elish. We are certainly looking forward to hearing her speak in our annual lecture next year.”