The summit is hosted on the beautiful Creative Campus at Liverpool Hope University from 8:30 to 17:15 on Tuesday 29th October, 2024. Please be aware that registration will close on Friday 18th October.
The UK is facing a health emergency that cannot be ignored; widening health inequalities, the cost of living crisis, and a decrease in life expectancy are affecting the most vulnerable groups in our society. The issues are complex and there are a variety of social, structural, political and environmental challenges that need attention. Despite well-established evidence of such health inequalities, effective and sustainable ways to address these issues are urgently needed.
The action-focused summit ‘Inequalities and Health’ aims to drive change in the North West region. The event will bring together academics, policy-makers, health professionals, businesses, third-sector organisations, communities, activists, and citizens, or anyone interested in decreasing inequalities in our region.
It will feature some of the most powerful voices on the matter, such as Prof Richard G. Wilkinson (Social Epidemiologist and Author), Prof Matthew Ashton (Director of Public Health for Liverpool City Region), Katie Schmuecker (Principal Policy Adviser, Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Debbie Abrahams MP (the Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth).
The day will comprise a combination of knowledge exchange sessions, workshops and expert-led presentations. The event will provide an opportunity for learning and planning ways to tackle these issues, on a local and national level. We welcome anyone interested in the themes below and promise controversial ideas and debates.
We are interested in inequalities in the broadest sense, and the conference themes include, but are not limited to:
- Poverty and Inequality
- Equality and Diversity
- Disability
- Housing
- Children and Young People
- Healthcare Delivery
- Food
- Physical Activity
- Mental Health
- Environment and Sustainability
- Migration
- Aging
Organising Committee:
- Dr Natalja Atas, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, Co-founder of the Poverty Research and Advocacy Network (PRAN)
- Dr Richard Webb, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Nutrition, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Liverpool Hope University
- Dr Hannah Madden, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, School of Public & Allied Health, Liverpool John Moores University
- Dr Simona Palladino, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University
- Dr Robin Owen, Lecturer in Sport Psychology, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Liverpool Hope University
From 8:30 to 17:15 on Tuesday the 29th of October 2024
Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus
Shaw Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP
Programme:
8.30 Registration and refreshments (Room: Cornerstone Foye)
9.00 Chairs’ Opening Remarks (Room: Capstone Theatre)
Lord Mayor Richard Kemp and Cllr Jane Corbett (Liverpool City Council)
9.15 Plenary Session One (Room: Capstone Theatre)
Understanding Health Inequality
Prof Matthew Ashton (Liverpool City Council), Katie Schmuecker (Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Debbie Abrahams MP (Oldham East and Saddleworth)
10.45 Break and refreshments (Capstone and Cornerstone Buildings)
11.00 Knowledge Exchange Sessions (Paper Presentations)
Session 1: Supporting the health of diverse populations
(Room:COR008B, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Cllr Rahima Farah (Liverpool City Council)
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- Ellie McNeil (YMCA Together) - Reducing health inequalities for people experiencing homelessness
- Daniel Gibbons (Cumberland Council) - For the inclusion of care experience as a protected characteristic: Investigating barriers to wellbeing, education and employment in Cumberland
- Dr Lucie Nield (University of Sheffield) - Exploring interventions which address the impact of deprivation in older adults
- Ahmed Uddin (University of Bradford) - A critical analysis of how empowerment of the Muslim community in Bradford through Zakat can influence the health and wellbeing of individuals.
Session 2: Improving health through co-production and community action
(Room:COR008, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Cllr Liz Parsons (Liverpool City Council)
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- Hollie Louise Walsh (Healthy Me Healthy Communities) - Voice, collaboration and power-sharing: community health priorities in Manchester
- Dr Lucia D’Ambruoso (University of Aberdeen) - ‘Mutual empowerment’ to support action on health inequalities: a pilot study using cooperative action learning to understand and address smoking in deprived communities
- Dr Suzanne Wilson (University of Central Lancashire) - Citizen social science and public health policy co-production in local government
- Amina Ismail (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) - Improving cancer screening and immunisation uptake within deprived and marginalised communities in Liverpool through collective action by communities and healthcare providers
Session 3: Experiences of health inequalities in marginalised communities
(Room:COR001, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Lord Mayor Richard Kemp (Liverpool City Council)
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- Charley Wilson (Liverpool John Moores University) - Relationships between neurodivergence status and adverse childhood experiences, and impacts on health, wellbeing, and criminal justice outcomes: findings from a regional household survey study in England
- Bridget Makande (Buckinghamshire New University) - The role of trust in the experiences of UK older minority ethnic people during COVID-19
- Dr Nancy Evans (University of Chester) - Disability welfare reforms as an attack on disabled people’s rights
- Dr Dan Allen (Liverpool Hope University) - Shucar Glasso: addressing the social and economic marginalisation of Romani people in Liverpool
- Belinda Tyrrell (University of Liverpool) - What does digital inclusion look like in a low-income neighbourhood?
Session 4: Healthy Homes: housing, fuel, and poverty
(Room:Grace Room, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Cllr Jane Corbett (Liverpool City Council)
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- Dr Joshua Blamire & Rachael Branton (University of Wolverhampton) - Cosy Homes: Energy Efficiency for All!
- Dr Richard Machin (Nottingham Trent University) - Contemporary poverty and inequality in the UK: lessons from a warm space
- Maya Middleton-Welch (University of Liverpool) - Falling Behind on Household Bills: Trends in levels of the UK population affected since 2009
- Dr Kat Ford (Bangor University) and Dr Hayley Janssen (Public Health Wales) - Understanding the impact of cold homes: findings from a systematic review and a longitudinal survey in Wales
Session 5: Navigating health policy, identity and care
(Room:COR 112, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Lisa Jones (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- Dr Eve Binks (Liverpool Hope University) - Lived Experiences of Menopause: Self, identity, and help-seeking
- Ezinma Mbeledogu (University for the Creative Arts) - Deep roots: the inextricable mesh of dress and identity and its persistence into later life. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study.
- Dr David Horton (University of Liverpool) - Inequalities and Health: A Resource-Based Perspective
- Dr Mary Guy (Liverpool John Moores University) - Health inequalities and healthcare access in a two-tier system: Understanding and mapping NHS and private healthcare interaction in England
Session 6: Addressing food insecurity
(Room: Capstone Theatre)
Chair: Ian Bryne MP (Liverpool West Derby)
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- Dr Michelle Thomas (University of Reading) - Fresh Street Community increases fruit and vegetable intake of citizens living in “most deprived area” of Reading: interim study results
- Prof. Morven G. McEachern (University of Chester) - Designing a community ecosystem to address food insecurity and well-being among elderly South Asian adults: A service evaluation framework approach
- Lee Collins (St Andrew’s Community Network) - Heating vs Eating as more than just words? The impacts of cold weather on foodbank usage across North Liverpool.
- Emma Österberg (IFAN) - A Cash First Approach to Food Insecurity
12.30 Lunch & Poster Fair (Room: Great Hall, Cornerstone Building)
Poster Fair: Various Health and Inequality Issues
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- Dr Jwana Aziz (University of Birmingham)
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- Leisa Batkin (Leeds City Council)
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- Nicola Calder (Food Active)
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- Frances Carbery (University of Central Lancashire)
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- Jess Dewhurst (Leeds City Council)
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- Helen Fowler (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- Anna Hendrick (Liverpool Hope University)
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- Dr Greg Keenan (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- Nicola Kelly-Johnson (Leeds City Council)
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- Dr Naoimh McMahon (Lancaster University)
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- Prof Jim McVeigh (Manchester Metropolitan University)
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- Dr Caroline Mogan (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- Alice O'Toole & Matty Caine (First Person Project CIC)
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- Dr Matthew Philpott (Health Equalities Group)
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- Dr Elizabeth Speake (Sheffield Hallam University)
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- Irina Stadniciuc (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- Dr Ricardo Tejeiro (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- Michael Viggars (Health Equalities Group)
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- Jenny Walker (Liverpool John Moores University)
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- Zoë Welch (Change Grow Live)
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- James Smith and Mark Swift (Wellbeing Enterprises CIC)
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- Rhiannon Clarke and Lindsay Sharples (Health Innovation NWC)
13.30 Plenary Session Two (Capstone Theatre)
Inequality: The Enemy Between Us (Online)
Prof Richard Wilkinson (Social epidemiologist, co-author of The Spirit Level, also of The Inner Level, co-founder of The Equality Trust)
14.30 Break and refreshments (Cornerstone Building)
14.45 Knowledge Exchange Workshops
Workshop 1: Tackling Poverty Locally
(Room: Grace Room 114, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Laura Burgess (Poverty Resolve)
Join us for an interactive workshop exploring who the key stakeholders are in local anti-poverty responses and what levers are available to them. Hear from Resolve Poverty, an expert organisation in local anti-poverty work as we discuss the work being done in localities to address poverty and explore what this means in the context of the government’s plans for a national child poverty strategy.
Workshop 2: Food insecurity - exploring the value of data and statistics
(Room: COR008, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Dr Daniel Clarkson (ARC NWC)
Food insecurity and food poverty are topics of growing concern within the UK, with foodbank usage increasing significantly over the past 15 years. Data and statistics play a critical role in evidencing both the scale of the challenges in food support and poverty in the UK as well as the impact that charities and initiatives can have. In this session, we'll discuss how data and evidence can be used to analyse topics around food insecurity, drawing on real examples to demonstrate the value that data can provide. Topics will include:
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- how data can be accessed and collected
- methods of analysing and presenting data with examples using foodbank data,
- identifying research questions around food insecurity.
This workshop provides information and sources of support for furthering people and organisations' own data analysis, with opportunities for discussion throughout. This session is recommended for anyone interested in using data to address challenges around food insecurity.
Workshop 3: Health 2040 working towards a healthier fairer communities
(Room: COR001, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Craig Hamilton and Gavin Flatt (Public Health Team, Liverpool City Council)
Description TBC
Workshop 4: Making Money Strange: towards a ‘Theatre of Political Economy’
(Room: COR008B, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Aidan Jolly (Collective Encounters)
Are you baffled by ‘fiscal black holes’? Gaslighted by GDP? Collective Encounters Theatre for Social Change and Aidan Jolly, through the Radical Researchers project, are combining popular education with participatory drama to co-produce a ‘Theatre of Political Economy’. This interactive workshop uses games to illuminate the use and misuse of basic economic concepts, and explores how increasing popular understanding of economic narratives can lead to meaningful social change.
In the UK monetary policy has been deployed to legitimate ‘sacrifice’ from those least able to afford it. Most people have no economic education, and despite widespread lived experience of poverty, many accept the narrative that money is in short supply, and the wealth inequality that results. The new government is continuing this policy, making the imagining of real alternatives both difficult, and essential. No prior understanding of economics is needed to participate in this workshop!
Workshop 5: Health and Housing
(Room: Grace Room 114A, Cornerstone Building)
Chair: Peter Owen (Energy Projects Plus)
We all strive to be warm at home at an affordable fuel cost. Not being able to achieve this can have impacts on the home conditions and a resulting effect on the health and wellbeing of the occupants.Identifying those suffering a chronically cold home and linking them directly to potential support and solutions is happening on an ad hoc basis but not universally. However, there may be opportunities to directly target and support people at risk, through data and experience led cross-service activities.
This workshops will deliver a presentation on the causes of cold homes, the potential effects on a property and the occupants health, and the use of the "see, hear, feel" approach to identifying issues will precede a discussion on where the potential data/experience sources exist and what are the opportunities and barriers to them being used.
16.00 Break and refreshments (Cornerstone Foyer)
16.15 Concluding Panel Discussion
Addressing Health and Inequalities
(Room: Capstone Theatre)
Chair: Wes Baker (Mersey Care NHS FT)
Lisa Jones (Liverpool John Moores University), Paul McGarry (Greater Manchester City Council), Dave Sweeney (Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership Head), Prof Dean Fathers DL (Chair of HINENC and the Midlands Engine Health, Care and Life Science Board), Susan Jarvis (Heseltine Institute, University of Liverpool)
17.15 Closing remarks
Please note: Programme may be subject to change
The summit is hosted on the beautiful Creative Campus at Liverpool Hope University on Tuesday 29th October, 2024.
Please be aware that registration will close will close on Friday 18th October.
Conference Fees:
Regular Rate: £70
Early Birds, Students, PRAN Members and Third Sector Organisations: £40
Note: The early bird rate closes on 5th of August 2024.
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Upon registration, you should receive an email confirmation. Additionally, a week before the conference itself, we will email you with additional information regarding parking recommendations and any additional news/updates.
We have a small budget to help those who do not have access to funds to purchase a ticket; please contact us if this is the case for you: action@hope.ac.uk
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch: action@hope.ac.uk
