In 2018 the Bristol Poverty Institute launched an internal, interdisciplinary seminar series. This series was moved online in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic this series, and whilst University of Bristol researchers remain the primary audience we are delighted that we are now able to share recordings of these webinars with the wider poverty-research community.

These seminars focus on broad themes relevant to poverty research which can be explored from a variety of different perspectives. The key aims of this seminar series are to facilitate networking, to showcase the range and value of research taking place on poverty-relevant themes across schools and faculties, to expose researchers to different perspectives and approaches, and to set collaborations in motion. We also welcome participants who are not currently working directly on poverty-focussed projects, as a key purpose of these seminars is to bring together researchers working in relevant fields and to try and expand the community of University of Bristol researchers engaged with poverty-relevant issues.

The seminars commence with a series of short (5minute) presentations from a range of speakers representing different disciplinary approaches to the topic at hand, and then moves on to a facilitated discussion, in which all attendees are encouraged to participate. This event is open to all University of Bristol academics at all career stages (including PhD researchers) as well as selected external attendees. For upcoming events in this series please visit our events page.

Recordings of webinars

Climate Change and Poverty, Wednesday 27 October 2021

Infrastructure and Inequalities, Thursday 29 July 2021

Sustainable & Equitable Food Systems, Wednesday 9 December 2020

Gambling and Poverty, Wednesday 11 November 2020 

Childhood Obesity and Poverty, Thursday 25 June 2020

Energy and Fuel Poverty, and Sustainable Solutions, Thursday 14 May 2020

In-person seminars

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic the interdisciplinary seminar series was run in-person, which we hope to resume soon. Some of our previous topics include:

• Digital Inclusion and Exclusion, Thursday 13 February 2020
  
  
• Mental Health and Poverty (co-hosted with Elizabeth Blackwell Institute), Thursday 16 January 2020
  
  
• Conflict and Poverty, Thursday 5 December 2019
  
  
• Gender and Poverty, Thursday 10 October 2019
  
  
• Energy and Fuel Poverty, Thursday 6 June 2019
  
  
• Migration and Poverty (co-hosted with Migration Mobilities Bristol), Thursday 16 May 2019
  
  
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Thursday 2 May 2019
  
  
• Disability and Poverty (co-hosted with Brigstow Institute), Friday 29 March 2019
  
  
• Environmental resilience (co-hosted with Cabot Institute), Friday 8 March 2019
  
  
• Eating 'Well', Thursday 24 January 2019
  
  
• Debt and Poverty, Thursday 25 October 2018