Venue: Conway Hall

25 Red Lion Square

London, WC1 (nearest tube: Holborn)

The conference will consist of a series of hour-long panels on different topics with four speakers and a Chair.  The aim of the conference is to be forward looking rather than only reminiscing about the past.  Speakers will be asked to talk for no longer than 10 minutes each and to spend not more than five minutes setting the scene and talking about the past and Peter Townsend’s work.  They will be asked to spend at least five minutes talking about what still needs to be done (both academically and politically) and how this can be achieved.  Each session should have 10 to 15 minutes for discussion.


10.00am – Introduction and Welcome

10.15am to 11.00am– Older People

1) Randall Smith (University of Bristol)

2) Hilary Land (University of Bristol)

3) Alan Walker (University of Sheffield)

Chair: Bharat Mehta (Joseph Rowntree Foundation & City Parochial Foundation)

11.00 to 11.30am – Coffee

11.30 to 12.45pm – Poverty and Social Exclusion

1) Ruth Levitas (University of Bristol)

2) Julio Boltvinik (El Colegio de México)

3) Jonathan Bradshaw (University of York)

4) Kate Green (Child Poverty Action Group)

Chair: Asuncion St. Clair (University of Bergen)

12.45 to 13.45pm – Lunch

13.45 to 14.45pm  – Inequalities in Health

1) Allyson Pollock (University of Edinburgh)

2) Margaret Whitehead (University of Liverpool)

3) Nick Spencer (University of Warwick)

4) Danny Dorling (University of Sheffield)

Chair: David Gordon (Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research)

14.45 to 15.45pm – Social Policy

1) Roy Parker (Centre for Social Policy)

2) Nicola Yeates (Open University)

3) Peter Taylor-Gooby (University of Kent)

4) Paddy Hillyard (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Chair: Roger Bullock (Social Research Unit at Dartington)

15.45 – Concluding Remarks

16.00pm Finish

Contact

e-mail to: townsend-memorial@bristol.ac.uk