The Cost of Living Crisis: Impacts from a multi-disciplinary perspective

The Cost of Living Crisis – impacts from a multi-disciplinary perspective

Despite still receiving media attention, the cost of living crisis debate has become quiet in terms of policy making.  However, it is certainly not fading for those people in the UK experiencing the detrimental impacts the crisis has produced.  Recently, the Health Foundation and the Resolution Foundation combined in conducting a second survey of 10000 individuals across British Households and found the living realities to continue to be bleak for many UK citizens.  Therefore, it is imperative that discussions on the impact of the crisis continue to progress knowledge in order to maintain awareness and to clearly inform policy.

The Centre for Organisations and Society is hosting a local one day event that aims to create a knowledge exchange platform that will bring together regional and national researchers and academics from interdisciplinary fields, members of the region’s authorities and politicians. This event aims to bring together different stakeholders from across the North East and beyond to advance knowledge and further understanding of the specific ways in which people are experiencing the cost of living crisis. It will thus provide a platform for the participants to share their expert opinion on emergent issues from experience and research and wider consequences associated with this crisis. We also seek to understand the different ways in which people are seeking to challenge, re-think and imagine alternatives in the face of this ongoing crisis. The event is a unique opportunity for interested parties to share their knowledge and engage in discussion.

Opening speaker: Jamie Driscoll – Mayor of the North of Tyne

Professor Ewen Speed (Professor of Medical Sociology in the School of Health and Social Care, University of Essex)

Rearticulating the cost of living crisis as a cost of inequality crisis

Professor Joyce Liddle (Professor of Public Leadership and Enterprise, and Academic Director, Insights North-East in the Faculty of Business and Law at Northumbria University)  

Levelling Up or Levelling down? How will NE Devolution impact on inequalities and the on-going cost of living crisis?

Dr. Martina Hutton (Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Royal Holloway University of London)

Poor(ly) Understood: Exploring the Real of Consumer Deprivation

Dr Mercy Denedo (Assistant Professor in Accounting, Durham University) and Dr Amanze Ejiogu (Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the Newcastle University Business School)

Stigma and the Social Housing Crisis

Venue:

The seminar will be held at Durham University Business School, room MHL405. The Business School is located at Mill Hill Lane, Durham, DH1 3LB.

The event includes buffet lunch and refreshments and is free of charge, but places are limited, so please register early if you plan to attend. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.