"Grimmer Up North? Health in An Age of Austerity", an event jointly presented by the Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing and DEMOS.

Wednesday 29th May 2013, 17:30 for refreshments, followed by the event from 18:30 - 20:00, Lindisfarne Centre, Durham University, Windmill Hill, Durham. DH1 3LJ

This joint event is the curtain raiser for a larger programme of engagement between the Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing and Demos on the theme of public health. The debate will be chaired by Chris Jackson, presenter of BBC1's Inside Out and will feature an expert panel consisting of Professor Clare Bambra, Director of fthe Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing, Claudia Wood, Deputy Director of Demos, Peter Kelly Director of Public Health for Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, Ian Greener, Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences and Director of the ESRC North East Doctoral Training Centre, Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central and Guy Opperman, Conservative MP for Hexham.

 "Grimmer Up North" will consider north/south health inequalities and possible solutions, the challenges to and issues for public health attainment in an age of austerity and current and future working conditions including redundancy, part-time work, underemployment and job insecurity. It will also aim to consider changes to the NHS and whether the system will be capable of dealing with an ageing society and comparatively scare resources as wellas changes to welfare policy. The audience will be encouraged to ask questions.

Places are limited to this event, therefore please register using this link to confirm your attendance.

A Wolfson coffee morning will be held on Monday 3 June 2013 in the Wolfson Street from 10.30am - 11.00am.

Please do come along and join/network with other colleagues over a coffee and a cake.

A joint collaboration between the Institute of Advanced Study / Durham Forum for Health & the Wolfson Research Institute for Health &Wellbeing is to take place on Tuesday 11th June 2013.

'Hidden Influences on helath & wellbeing through life course'

Speakers:

Professor Caroline Relton, Newcastle University: Cross-generational epi-genetics

Professor Joe Elliott, Durham University: Socio-cultural forces upon children's development & behaviour

Professor Douglas James Davies, Durham University: Today's imagination of tomorrow's mortality

Buffet from 18:00 - 18:30 - the Street, Wolfson Research Institute

Event 18:30 - 21:00 - Tees Suite, Wolfson Research Institute

Please click here to register your attendance for catering purposes.

ABSTRACTS

Professor Joe Elliott - "The individual's own developmental life course is seen as embedded in and powerfully shaped by conditions and events occurring during the historical period through which the person lives" (Bronfenbrenner, 1995, p. 641

In my talk, I shall draw upon Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory to discuss the differing influences that cumulatively impact upon children’s development. To illustrate this, I shall discuss the nature of social, educational and cultural practices that operated in the Soviet Union and which largely continued in the first years of the Russian Federation. The impact of broader globalising influences upon such practices and traditions, and upon children’s development more generally, will then be highlighted and examined.

Professor Douglas James Davies - How do we, as living individuals, anticipate ourselves when we are dead?

Largely avoiding the philosophical point that since we won’t ‘be there’ we had just as well not worry about it, this sketch works from a more mundane perspective asking how our life-style networks of people and engagement with things link with our planning of our post-mortal situation. Here, with an eye to notions of identity, emotions, and destiny, the interplay of this-worldly and other-worldly perspectives will be pondered and thought given on how ideas become transformed into values and values into beliefs. Illustrative material will be drawn from empirical research on funerals and funeral planning to explore the interplay of vitality and mortality in today’s mixed religious-ideological world. 

'Drug addiction - from animal research to healthy human'. Monday 17th June 2013. 10:00 - 15:00. 

Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room F009

Speakers:

• Professor Karen K. Szumlinski, Dept Psychology & Brain Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara - 'Understanding the impact of binge drinking on the brain: Insights into the role for hyper-glutamatergia in alcoholism'
• Professor Tod E. Kippin, Dept Psychology & Brain Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara - 'Sex Differences in Animal Models of Cocaine Addiction'
• Dr Jonathan Ling, Department of Pharmacy, Sunderland University - 'Drinking in mid and later life: Triggers for problematic alcohol use over the lifecourse'
• Mr Oliver Bartlett, Durham Law School, Durham University - 'Lost in Translation? Why the EU's lack of legal competence in public health blocks the adoption of evidence based addiction prevention policies'

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee/tea

10:30 - 10:40 Introduction & Welcome, Dr I Obara

10:40 - 11:30 inc. Q&A - 1st speaker, Professor K Szumlinski 

11:30 - 12:20 inc. Q&A - 2nd speaker, Professor T Kippin 

12:20 - 13:20 - Lunch 'the street'

13:20 - 14:10 inc. Q&A - 3rd speaker, Dr J Ling 

14:10 - 15:00 inc. Q&A - 4th speaker, Mr O Bartlett

 Please click here to register your attendance for catering purposes.