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SUMMARY:KESS Seminar - Social Welfare Issues Relating to Poverty
DESCRIPTION:1.30pm – RaISe – Welcome and Opening Remarks  \n1.45pm – Dr Mark Simpson (Ulster) – Protecting dignity\, fighting poverty and promoting social inclusion in devolved social security  \nThe protection of human dignity and poverty reduction are core functions of social security. Changes to working age benefits since 2010 have reduced claimants’ incomes\, putting more people at risk of poverty and arguably reducing the ability of the system to support a dignified standard of living. Human rights law has been used to challenge key policies and pressure has grown for a different approach in Scotland and Northern Ireland\, resulting in Northern Ireland’s mitigations programme and the devolution of new powers to Scotland. The Scottish Government has given a commitment to develop a devolved system on the basis of a distinctive set of principles\, notably respect for the dignity of claimants\, and plans to reinstate statutory targets for the reduction of child poverty. The Northern Ireland Executive has a legal duty to publish a strategy for tackling poverty and social exclusion. There are also proposals for enhanced protection of social and economic rights in both regions. These objectives could be undermined by benefit cuts. Limiting the child element of universal credit to two children per household is projected to increase child poverty and merits particularly close attention. Recent judicial reviews show senior judges are increasingly prepared to hold governments accountable for the impact of social security regulations on children’s rights. It is therefore likely that this change will be challenged in the courts. However\, the devolved regions need not wait for legal action. The two-child limit works against Scottish policy on child poverty\, while Northern Ireland’s larger average family size and higher rates of socio-economic disadvantage mean it will be among the most affected United Kingdom (UK) regions: parity in social security provision does not mean parity of living standards. Drawing on research for the Equality and Human Rights Commission\, the seminar examines how social security system can protect dignity. It then assesses the impact of recent reforms in the UK\, with a focus on child-related benefits. Finally\, it suggests that dignity and child poverty can help devolved administrations identify priority areas where limited resources can be targeted to improve social security at the regional level. \n2.05pm – Dr Paul McKenzie (Ulster) – Mapping Fuel Poverty Across Northern Ireland \nFuel poverty is a significant issue across Europe and a particular problem within the UK and Ireland. Fuel poverty occurs when insufficient funds are available to pay for a warm and comfortable home. Households affected by fuel poverty are at risk of physical and mental health difficulties and are linked with excess winter mortality. While strategies exist to reduce fuel poverty\, there is a pressing need to allocate assistance to those most in need. As fuel poverty is influenced by various socio-economic indicators\, an area-based targeting approach was developed to identify households most at risk of fuel poverty. \nGeographic Information Systems (GIS) can be used to integrate variables that are key determinants of fuel poverty including temperature\, the price of home heating oil\, data on benefits (e.g. Disability Living Allowance) and deprivation. GIS enabled variables to be combined and weighted for each Census Output Area (COA) to create a fuel poverty risk score for every household in Northern Ireland. \nThis presentation highlights findings of research undertaken in relation to fuel poverty risk model\, which received further funding from OFMDFM and the Department for Social Development (DSD) to liaise with local councils to determine the efficiency of the area-based model to identify those households most at risk. Questionnaires were conducted in partnership with 18 District Councils to identify the extent of fuel poverty within targeted COAs. The area-based approach proved very successful in identifying households at risk of fuel poverty. \nThe research found that the ability to combine\, analyse and visualise many socio-economic datasets means that this technique is transferable to many other areas of application. This presentation explains that the approach enables planners and policy makers to visualise “at-risk” groups which in turn facilitates targeting of resources and assistance of those most in need. It also explains that the approach developed for fuel poverty has considerable potential for wider poverty mapping and research is currently underway at Ulster University on an area-based algorithm for mapping food poverty in Northern Ireland. \n2.25pm – Discussion  \n\n2.55pm – RaISe – Closing Remarks  \n\n3.00pm – Networking and Refreshments
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/kess-seminar-social-welfare-issues-relating-poverty/
LOCATION:Long Gallery\, Parliament Buildings\, Stormont\, Belfast\, BT4 3XX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Human Rights in a Changing Europe – Colliding Spheres of Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join key note speakers Dr. Evelyn Collins (NI Equality Commission\, EQUINET) and Dr. Daniel Sarmiento (Universidad Complutense Madrid)\, in panels on “Equality and Social Justice” and “Human Rights versus Criminal Justice?”. \nUsing the image of colliding spheres\, this day conference (10 am – 4.20 pm) at the School of Law\, Queen’s University Belfast\, invites debate on the state of human rights protection in Europe under the legal regimes of the European Union and the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). \nRegistration now open. \nTo view the programme\, click here.
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/human-rights-changing-europe-colliding-spheres-justice/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, School of Law\, Tower Building\, Belfast\, Antrim \, BT7 1NN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:KESS Seminar -  Enabling Society through Interaction
DESCRIPTION:1.30pm – RaISe – Welcome and Opening Remarks \n1.45pm – Prof Roger Austin (Ulster) and Prof Rhiannon Turner (QUB) – New evidence and new approaches for shared education  \nThis presentation focuses on how new research evidence can be used to make shared education more sustainable and more accessible for more children. Shared education has been adopted as policy by the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive. It is based on the hope that the sharing of resources and expertise between schools can improve community relations and raise educational outcomes (DE 2016). Most of the 300 schools currently involved in shared education projects (25% of the total number of schools) do so through the Shared Education Signature Programme. Children meet face to face and spend time together on joint curricular projects either in neutral venues or in each other’s schools. \nThe presentation considers new research evidence on a different approach to shared education –  blended contact – a combination of online interaction and face to face work which can inform future policy development. It includes findings of a study with 28 primary schools in Northern Ireland with marked socio-economic and educational disadvantage\, which suggest that blended contact has striking advantages\, not just in terms of children’s better understanding of each other\, but also in the skills of teachers with regard to use of ICT communication tools\, such as Virtual Learning Environments and video-conferencing. Since the online element of the contact is already available in schools in Northern Ireland there would be no additional cost to schools or to government. Making better use of existing technology resources in schools for shared education has the added advantage that it helps teachers meet the new statutory requirements for the assessment of Using Information Communication Technology. This presentation explains how this kind of alignment\, between two different policy areas in schools\, is likely to make shared education more sustainable. Moreover\, it explains that the use of online contact provides a better chance to include ALL schools\, irrespective of their geographical location and in this sense makes shared education more accessible by more schools. \n2.05pm – Mr David Coyles\, Prof Brandon Hamber and Dr Adrian Grant (Ulster) – Hidden barriers and divisive architecture: the case of Belfast  \nThe “peace-walls” are particularly symbolic of the role that architecture plays in separating residential communities and a comprehensive scholarship continues to assess their effects. This presentation outlines original findings from a three-year multi-disciplinary academic research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council\, which extends this current understanding of physical and social division. It reveals new evidence of a distinct and important\, yet largely unrecognised\, body of divisive architecture; an extensive range of ‘hidden barriers’ embedded in various architectural forms across Belfast’s residential communities. The presentation draws on six distinctive case-study communities that have been subjected to the implementation of ‘hidden barriers’ during the comprehensive redevelopment of social-housing during the Troubles: all six communities fall within the top ten percentile of the most deprived electoral wards in Northern Ireland with comprehensive\, evidence-based examples of less visible and undervalued forms of social and physical division. The case studies provide a rigorous and reliable evidence base drawn from qualitative fieldwork that includes architectural mapping\, photography\, community focus groups and in excess of 100 community interviews. This data is underpinned by new and extensive archival research and analysis of NINIS statistical data. The presentation explains how emerging findings from the research reveal complex and multi-layered impacts that these “hidden barriers” have on community relations and community regeneration policy aspirations that are central to the implementation of the Executive’s ‘Together: Building a United Community Strategy’. It concludes by outlining recommendations on how these issues could be addressed within current policy frameworks\, presenting the case for the development of novel and bespoke approaches to issues of concern\, with a focus on housing\, tourist development\, and infrastructural investment. \n2.25pm – Discussion \n2.55pm – RaISe – Closing Remarks\n\n3.00pm – Networking and Refreshments
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/kess-seminar-enabling-society-interaction/
LOCATION:Long Gallery\, Parliament Buildings\, Stormont\, Belfast\, BT4 3XX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:QPol Brexit Clinic June 2018
DESCRIPTION:QPol Policy Engagement at Queen’s invites you to the latest in its series of ‘Brexit Clinics’ bringing together academic experts and stakeholders to discuss the issues facing the UK\, to consider the particular challenges the process poses for Northern Ireland and to provide informed insights into the process. \nWhatever your particular interest is in Brexit and the EU\, come along to the next Clinic on Wednesday 27 June at 12.30pm. The Clinic\, led by Professor David Phinnemore\, will consist of introductory comments on the process by senior Queen’s academics Professor Dagmar Schiek\, Dr Katy Hayward and Dr Viviane Gravey and will be followed by a Q+A session and discussion addressing issues raised by participants. \nPlaces are limited so please register early here.
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/qpol-brexit-clinic-june-2018/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, School of Law\, Tower Building\, Belfast\, Antrim \, BT7 1NN\, United Kingdom
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