Upcoming Events
Events
Events - forthcoming events
Details of forthcoming events can be found below. For general events information or sponsorship enquiries, please contact events@ippr.org.
The Friday Exchange programme has been renamed ippr's Thinking on Thursdays. The format will remain the same, usually involving a short presentation from a guest speaker, followed by a questions and answers session.
Conditional cash transfers: are they an effective way to reduce child poverty?
15 January 2009
1:00pm-2:30pm
ippr, 30- 32 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7RA
In the last decade several countries in Latin America, South Asia and Africa have developed a new form of social assistance designed to relieve poverty and break the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage. Conditional cash transfers provide cash to very poor households on the requirement that parents meet a set of requirements such as ensuring their child attends health check-ups and goes to school.
Although there is nothing new about attaching conditions to benefits, CCTs potentially offer an attractive approach by increasing financial support for families in poverty and rewarding parents for their role in raising their children rather than for other activities, such as employment.
CCTs are now being piloted in New York under an initiative set up by Mayor Bloomberg. And here in the UK, child development grants are being piloted in ten local authorities to encourage poor families to use childcare and other services provided by Children’s Centres.
But while they encourage increased use of services, do CCTs really improve children’s outcomes? And are they effective in changing patterns of behaviour that will alter intergenerational patterns that are often linked to disadvantage?
Oxford Media Convention 2009
22 January 2009
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
This one-day conference, organised by ippr in partnership with MediaGuardian, returns for its seventh year. The Oxford Media Convention 2009 will focus on convergence as senior government and industry figures come together and discuss current and forthcoming challenges and opportunities around media policy, strategy and regulation.
Seen by many as the industry-defining event, the Oxford Media Convention provides an important opportunity for senior figures from broadcasting, academia and regulatory bodies to think creatively about the regulatory framework we want to see develop to guarantee the success of our creative and media industries.
Keynote speakers include:
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Ed Richards, CEO, Ofcom
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Richard Allan, chair, Power of Information Task Force
- Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, secretary of state for culture, media and sport
- Jon Gisby, director of New Media and Technology, Channel 4
- Jeremy Hunt MP, shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport
Full details of speakers and panels can be found in the brochure (subject to change).
Faith in the Nation
Religion, identity and the public realm in Britain today
"One of the most important contributions to date on the role of religion in Britain’s increasingly secular but also multifaith society." The Times.
Shared Destinies
Security in a globalised world
Laying the foundations for a re-think of UK national security strategy for the first quarter of the century.
Closing the Mitigation Gap
By The Global Climate Network
New analysis shows that a ‘mitigation gap’ could open up and undermine the credibility of a post-2012 regime that has the aim of avoiding dangerous climate change.