Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain

The Second Peter Townsend Memorial conference was held recently. At this conference a new website was promoted which will be the central hub for the Poverty and Social Exclusion in the United Kingdom: the 2011 survey. As I am sure you have discovered from your reading the previous study informed the book Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: the millennium survey.

The website should prove to be a useful tool for exploring poverty and social exclusion in the UK as this important research project develops over this next year. It is something that you may find useful over the rest of your course and beyond.

So please take time to have a look at the website and check back on a regular basis for updates. You may also wish to complete the necessities survey on the website and help the research team as they test the list of necessities to include in their measure of poverty.

You can find the website here: http://www.poverty.ac.uk/

February Meeting

The February session on LCO’s and the upcoming referendum is with Marie Navarro from Cardiff Law School

17th February

Glamorgan Building -1.56

1:00 – 2:00pm

Marie Navarro is a specialist in public law and the new legislative powers of the Welsh Assembly Government and of the National Assembly for Wales. She is a Research Associate at Cardiff Law School and the Editor and Chief Researcher to the Law School website Wales Legislation Online which sets out the powers of the National Assembly for Wales and of the Welsh Assembly Government since July 1999.

Upcoming meetings Feb – July 2011

Meeting Timetable

 

February 17th

Room -1.56 Glamorgan Building 1:00 – 2:00pm

LCO’s and the Welsh Referendum 

Miss Marie Navarro, Research Associate at Cardiff Law School

 

March 17th

Room -1.56 Glamorgan Building 1:00 – 2:00pm

Sustainable Development in Wales

Stephen Brooks – Head of SDC Wales

 

April 21st

Room -1.60 Glamorgan Building 1:00 – 2:00pm (please note change of room for this meeting)

Women’s self-regulation in the night time economy: a nudge towards the big society

Rachel Taylor-Swann, Cardiff School of Social Sciences

 

May 19th

Room -1.56 Glamorgan Building 1:00 – 2:00pm

Housing in Wales: current issues and discussion

Dr. Peter Mackie, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning

 

June 16th

Room -1.56 Glamorgan Building 1:00 – 2:00pm

How Fair is Wales? Report from the EHRC

(Speaker TBC)

 

July 21st

Room -1.56 Glamorgan Building 1:00 – 2:00pm

Youth Policy in Wales

Prof. Howard Williamson, University of Glamorgan