The PSE Northern Ireland team have presented the research results at a large number of conferences and forums. In addition to the written publications, a short play based on the combined findings of the quantitative and qualitative PSE findings was put on by Grace Kelly. This was performed at the QUB Child Care Research Forum in November 2014 and again at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at QUB in December 2015.
Legacies of conflict, Mike Tomlinson, Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series, October, 2013
The Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 2012 included questions, first asked in 2002/3, designed to capture the impact of the ‘Troubles’ on people’s lives. In this presentation for the Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series, Mike Tomlinson presents the initial analysis of these findings. The 2012 results survey found that just under a half of all adults (45%) experienced either the death or injury of someone they knew personally. For more than a third of adults (35%), someone they knew was killed. With the exception of imprisonment, all of the conflict experiences are associated with a higher risk of poor physical and mental health and most were associated with lower life satisfaction. Download the powerpoint and paper below. Watch the video here.
Tags: Health, Mental health, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland presentation, Presentation, ReligionOn 27 February 2012, Owen Patterson MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland debated the Welfare Reform Bill at Queen’s University, Belfast. Mike Tomlinson, Head of the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work was the respondent and in his response he argues that the reform delivers £18 billion in cuts across the UK (£600m in Northern Ireland) while aligning the benefits and tax credit systems to a more unpredictable and flexible labour market. But it fails at perhaps the biggest challenge of all – rebalancing the rewards for work from the richest to the low paid.
Tags: Low pay, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland presentation, Universal credit, Welfare systemThis paper, presented to the ASITIS Children of Conflict Conference on 26 March 2012, addresses the question of what has the Northern Ireland conflict got to do with the challenges we face in addressing the needs, rights and opportunities of our young people today, especially those who are out of work and detached from education and training.
Tags: Deprivation, Living standards, Necessities, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland presentation, Poverty measurementPresentation to University College Cork, Poverty Methods Summer School in June 2012.
Tags: Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland presentation, Poverty forecast, Social exclusion