Events

Building Communities of Trust: Community Cohesion in the North

Sunderland Venue.

This high profile conference will explore interconnected issues around community cohesion, social capital and trust, empowerment and engagement. The event will enable participants to discuss and debate how the public sector and community and voluntary organisations can take practical steps to achieving stronger and more engaged communities. It will explore cohesion in its broadest sense including between ethnic groups, religious, geographical and intergenerational issues.  Speakers include Shahid Malik MP, Minister for Community Cohesion, Bobby Duffy, Managing Director, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute; Graham  Burgess, Chief Executive, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council; and Dave Smith, Chief Executive, Sunderland City Council. Other speakers to be confirmed shortly.

For more information or to book your place email north@ippr.org.

This event is supported by Gentoo Group and Sunderland City Council .

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Café Politique: The North South Divide: Is the Gap Growing?

7:00-9:00pm
The Urban Café, Dance City ,Temple Street, Newcastle NE1 4BR

What has the impact of the economic recession been on the North? Has the credit crunch led to a widening of the North South divide? Daniel Dorling, geographer at the University of Sheffield who was awarded the Leverhulme Prize for his work, will reveal the answers from his mapping of changing social, medical and political geographies of Britain. He will consider the implications of rising housing market and wealth inequalities and the polarisation of health and life chances.

This event is free and open to all. For more information email l.sweeney@ippr.org.

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Learning by Doing: How can museums best inspire and engage young people? A Northern Perspective

Newcastle venue

This conference will explore the importance of linking up education, youth services and museums to help meet and raise young people’s aspirations and opportunities to learn. Speakers include Paul Collard, Culture, Creativity Education and Janice Lane, Glasgow Museums and Sport, Baroness Estelle Morris and Sue Wilkinson, MLA.

Involving policymakers and practitioners from education, youth services, and museums as well as young people and the community and voluntary sector, this event will consider what changes need to be made to make the most of current untapped resources, confronting head-on the challenge of engaging and reaching children and young people through learning and cultural opportunities offered by museums and galleries.

ippr recently published the report Learning to Live: Museums, young people and education, which addresses key questions about the role of museums and other institutes of material culture in young people’s wellbeing and learning. Authored by prominent and expert figures from the worlds of culture and education, this collection explores what museums, working with policymakers and delivery bodies such as schools, can and should be doing, both within and beyond the classroom, to inspire learning and creativity among all young people.

This event is supported by National Museums Directors Conference and Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums.

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