“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 Ireland reveal…
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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 key part of their diet. For…
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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 health, and in how we might assess the…
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Globalisation has winners and losers. In the slums of Kolkata live communities at the wrong end of globalisation.
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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’? What do we think…
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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 governments’ emphasis, over the past 15 years, on credit unions as a…
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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 refugees and asylum seekers, and points to…
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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 response to the consultation. In particular, ‘it fails to recognise the fundamental distinction between measures of poverty and…
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As the gap between rich and poor widens, we look at the corrosive effects of poverty and how positioning it as a human rights issue might strengthen campaigns for greater equality.
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George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier is still a shocking book to read. By revisiting the road to Wigan, this podcast explores to what extent things have changed since Orwell’s time.
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