This interdisciplinary seminar may be of interest, bringing together geography, sociology, healthcare and more. Its free to attend the morning session!
Policy seminar: What keeps the UK healthy? Geographical perspectives on work and worklessness
How is the health and well-bring of the UK’s population affected by the economic downturn, and what are the challenges posed by long-term worklessness? This day long policy seminar, part of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s established Environment and Society Forum, and organised jointly with the Society’s Geography of Health Research Group (GHRG), will bring together key stakeholders from government and agencies, practitioners, local government, NGOs, and researchers. The seminar will consider what impacts the economic downturn is having upon individual's and local communities' health - both physical and mental - and what challenges long-term worklessness poses. It will examine how these vary across the UK: how geography matters, as well as examining case-studies across the country seeking to address these challenges.
Further details (including a PDF of timings) can be found at www.rgs.org/environmentandsociety
Tickets for the full-day, including lunch and refreshments, are £40 for charities/not for profit, academics, health workers/practitioners and society members, £15 for unwaged/students, and £60 for full price tickets.
Tickets can be booked online at www.rgs.org/environmentandsociety or by contacting our events team at 020 7591 3100 and events@rgs.org
Registration to attend the morning part of the seminar is free of charge as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)'s 2012 Festival of Social Science. Lunch is not provided.
