Poverty
Fran Bennett, Senior Research Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Oxford in conversation with Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University and a Member of the House of...
View Article‘Completely inept’– academics’ view on government poverty consultation
The government’s consultation paper on Measuring Child Poverty is ‘conceptually completely inept and confused’, argues Professor Jonathan Bradshaw in the Poverty and Social Exclusion research team’s...
View ArticleAsylum seekers: written out of the picture
A new report, ‘Written out of the picture‘, published this week by the North East Child Poverty Commission and the Regional Refugee Forum North East draws attention to the destitution suffered by many...
View ArticleWho is giving financial support to people in poverty?
Research suggests that during times of financial crisis, individuals and households return to forgotten and (previously) redundant forms of economic and social behaviour in order to survive. Given...
View ArticleWhat are the ‘necessities of life’?
Talk to any politician – of whatever party – and they will tell you their polling suggests that being tough on welfare recipients is popular with the public. So what do we consider to be ‘poverty’?...
View ArticleOn the wrong end of globalisation: The Kolkata slums
Jeremy Seabrook talks to Caspar Melville about life in Muslim communities in the slums of Kolkata, and paints a powerful and shocking picture of people who have suffered centuries of expropriation,...
View ArticleWhat is the relationship between poverty, social exclusion and mental health?
Various studies have suggested that there is a relationship between poverty, and social exclusion, and mental health problems. But this is complex, both in terms of how we might measure poor mental...
View ArticleWild food essential for food security for a billion people
The wild food trend in wealthy societies has re-acquainted people with the various edible plants to be found in the countryside. But around the world wild foods are relied on by a billion people as a...
View ArticleHard Times: increasing poverty in Northern Ireland
“I feel like I am walking on the edge of a cliff and at any moment I will fall off”. A series of unique reports highlighting research by 8 communities living in areas of high deprivation in Northern...
View ArticleThe Global Development Crisis
A third of workers, internationally, earn less than $2 a day. The World Bank sets the poverty line at $1.25 a day, and on that basis asserts that poverty is declining. But is that right? Where did...
View ArticleImproving children’s mental health
Where once public health was about clean water supplies and infectious diseases it is now mental health – and in particular depression, stress and anxiety amongst children – that has become the...
View ArticleBack on the road to Wigan Pier
It is the 75th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, in which he travelled to the north of England to see how ‘the poor’ lived. In his new book, The Road to Wigan...
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