I-SPHERE hosts a series of online seminars throughout the year with guest speakers from across the UK and beyond.
We are delighted to be running a joint seminar programme with The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health (CHIH). This provides a forum for sharing and debating developments regarding the institutes’ mutual interests in understanding and redressing the extreme inequalities and injustices affecting some of society’s most marginalised populations.
Young people, food insecurity and COVID 19
Presented by I-SPHERE and Oak Foundation 2020 research intern Charlotte McPherson
Moral Framing of Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients in Australia
Presented by Katie Curchin from Australian National University
Cultivating the ethical society: charity and welfare in contemporary society
Presented by Cameron Parsell and Andrew Clarke
I need to commission an evaluation – where do I start?
I-SPHERE in partnership with the Oak Foundation and UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) are running an online event aimed at voluntary or public sector organisations in the housing and homelessness sector who want to commission research or evaluation.
It will be an opportunity to hear more about the benefits of undertaking research and evaluation, as well as some practical steps to designing and undertaking a project. It will help you with where to start, where to go for help and what to look out for. It is also a chance to connect and share experiences with people in similar positions across the sector.
Speakers
| Opening | Professor David Robinson, Head of Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield and Co-Investigator at CaCHE |
| About Research and Evaluation | Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Director of I-SPHERE |
| The Funders’ Perspective | Raji Hunan, Director of Housing and Homelessness Programme, Oak Foundation |
| Example of Commissioning Evaluation | Phil Davis, Coordinator of Hope Projects Birmingham and Dr Beth Watts, Researcher at I-SPHERE |
Human Rights, freedom and social citizenship in times of pandemic
Presented by Koldo Casla
Administrative data for social policy research, potentials and pitfalls
Presented by Nick Baily
Lived Experiences of choice, control and success in Housing First
Presented by Chris Parker
Young people’s subjective experiences of social and intergenerational injustice in Scotland
Presented by Charlotte McPherson
Multiple Exclusion Homelessness, attachment and relationship with care: A missing link?
Presented by Nikoletta Theodorou
Family Values: the prioritisation of children in UK homelessness policy
Presented by Katie Colliver