Hosted by the Bristol Poverty Institute
These webinars will focus on how the pandemic has impacted on people with disabilities (both physical and intellectual), including the disproportionate nature of this impact, and how this intersects with dimensions of poverty. This first webinar will explore how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted on existing inequalities as well as potentially exposing new risks and challenges for disabled persons in the UK, with the second webinar in spring 2022 expanding the discussion to a global scale.
Our fantastic panel of speakers brings together experts from academia, the charity sector, and community organisations, and includes representation from those with lived experience of disability:
- Professor Pauline Heslop, Professor of Intellectual Disabilities Studies and Head of Nora Fry Centre for Disability Studies, University of Bristol
- Ms Fazilet Hadi, Head of Policy at Disability Rights UK
- Ms Laura Welti, Chief Officer and Forum Manager of Bristol Disability Equality Forum
Following the presentations there will be an opportunity for Q&A with the panellists, and we will have live BSL interpreters throughout the webinar. This webinar is open to anyone to attend.
To register: https://disability-poverty-and-covid-19.eventbrite.co.uk
This webinar is part of the BPI’s Poverty Dimensions of COVID-19 series which aims to bring together a variety of participants representing different sectors, with a range of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches. We recognise that different professional, academic, and civic communities will have access to different sources of information, datasets, and tools for analysis, and may also have different immediate priorities. We are, however, all driven by the ultimate aim of reducing the negative impacts of this global pandemic on all aspects of society, and particularly on those communities and individuals who are already experiencing disadvantages. By bringing together a range of perspectives we seek to improve our understanding of the poverty dimensions of this pandemic, and by extension our ability to influence policy and practice in order to mitigate its negative impacts.