Throughout the year Combat Poverty runs a series of lunchtime seminars
which provide an informal forum to discuss poverty-related research,
either supported by Combat Poverty or undertaken on an independent basis.
Presentations from 2004 to date are available in the seminars archive -
new presentations are usually available within a week of the seminar.
| Date |
Seminar |
Tuesday
9
September
12:30-2pm |
Tackling
Youth Unemployment and Marginalisation: the case of work experience
acquired before leaving school
Dr Delma Byrne, Centre for Educational Sociology, ESRI
Study funded under the Poverty Research Initiative |
Thursday
18 September
12:30-2pm |
Financial Services
Provision and Prevention of Financial Exclusion in Europe
Caroline
Corr, Research Officer, Combat Poverty
Study funded under by the European Commission under the
EU Social Exclusion Programme |
Tuesday
23 September
12:30-2pm
|
Health
Inequalities, Deprivation and Access to Primary Healthcare
Dr Jean Saunders, Statistical Consulting Unit, University of Limerick
Study funded under the Poverty Research Initiative |
Friday
26 September
12:30-2pm |
Medical
Cards Analysis of EU SILC
Patricia Keilthy, Senior Research
Fellow, Combat Poverty
Study funded under the Poverty Research
Initiative |
Thursday
9
October
12:30-2pm |
Nigerian Church
Communities in Ireland: creating space for difference
Julius
Komolafe, Projects Researcher, Combat Poverty
Research Seminar in conjunction with Projects
Section, Combat Poverty Agency |
Tuesday
4 November
12:30-2pm |
Empowering
Communities in Disadvantaged Urban Areas: Towards Greater Community
Participation in Irish Urban Planning
Dr Andrew MacLaran,
TCD
Study funded under the Poverty Research Initiative |
Friday
7 November
12:30-2pm |
Private
Sector Involvement in Regenerating Social Housing Estates: worthwhile
and workable?
Dr Michelle Norris and Dr Declan
Redmond, UCD
Study funded under the Poverty Research
Initiative |
Tuesday
11 November
12:30-2pm |
Rethinking
Child Poverty and Social Exclusion
Prof Sheila Green and Dr
Liz Kerrins, TCD
Study funded under the Poverty Research Initiative |
Tuesday
18
November
12:30-2pm |
Evolving
Local Government and Social Partnership - Enhancing Social Inclusion?
Chris McInerney,
University of Limerick
Combat Poverty
PhD Fellow |
Friday
21 November
12:30-2pm |
Poverty
Amongst Migrants in the Private Rented Sector
Bob Jordan, Threshold
Study funded under the Poverty Research
Initiative |
Friday
28 November
12:30-2pm |
A Comparative
Study of Policies to Tackle and Prevent Poverty and Social
Exclusion among Children
Hugh Frazer, Maurice Devlin and Seamus Ó’Cinnéide,
NUI Maynooth
Study funded under the Poverty Research
Initiative |
Tuesday
2 December
12:30-2pm
|
Access to
Housing for One Person Households in Ireland
Bob Jordan, Threshold
Study funded under the Poverty Research Initiative |
Friday
5 December
12:30-2pm |
Where
Next? Mapping and Understanding the Post First Degree
Destinations of Mature Disadvantaged Students in Three Higher
Education Institutions
Dr Ted Fleming, NUI Galway, Andrew Loxley,
TCD, Aidan Kenny, DIT, Fergal Finnegan, Hume Scholar, NUI Maynooth
Study
funded under the Poverty Research Initiative |
Tuesday
9
December
12:30-2pm
|
Living
around the Poverty Line
Dr Micheál Collins,
Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin |
Research seminars are open to all. Unless otherwise indicated
they take place in the Boardroom of the Combat Poverty Agency and last
for 90 minutes over lunchtime (12:30pm-2pm). Tea/coffee and sandwiches
are provided.
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