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Engagement activity highlights
Thought Leader Talks and CPC-CG seminars
We have held seven Thought Leader Talks, designed to bring in leading voices from other institutions and organisations to exchange knowledge on intergenerational connections, and open up discussion and debate to the Connecting Generations team and wider academic, policy, practitioner and public audiences. Alongside this, we have organised 31 open access seminars since 1 April 2022. Attendees can attend the seminars online, with some now being offered as hybrid sessions for visiting presenters. Where possible, recordings are made available on YouTube after our events.
As well as our academic audience from national and international institutions, we’ve welcomed delegates from the Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, ISTAT, the Spanish National Research Council, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, the National Population Council of Mexico, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Clarion Housing Group, local and national government representatives, including from DWP, local councils and the Local Government Association, and representatives from charities such as Youthscape and Age Action.
Thought Leader Talk themes have included:
An introduction to the Connecting Generations programme with Professor Jane Falkingham, Professor Mike Brewer, and Professor Hill Kulu.
The impact of generational stereotyping with Professor Bobby Duffy (King’s College London), The Rt Hon. Lord David Willetts, and Professor Jane Falkingham.
The effects of Britain’s economic history and outlook on different generations with Professor James Sefton (Imperial College London), Professor Jane Falkingham, and The Rt Hon. Lord David Willetts.
A formal demography view on kinship, family and generations with Professor Hal Caswell (University of Amsterdam), Dr Jason Hilton, Professor Jakub Bijak and Dr Joanne Ellison.
The impacts on the ‘Covid Generation’ with Dr Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University), Professor Jane Falkingham, Professor Ann Berrington and Dr Júlia Mikolai.
How political preferences and choices are influenced by concerns for family members with Dr Zack Grant (University of Oxford), Professor Jane Falkingham, Dr Dianna Smith (University of Southampton), and Dr Matt Ryan (University of Southampton).
How different generations participate in politics with Professor Maria Grasso (Queen Mary University of London), Professor Jane Falkingham, The Rt Hon. Lord David Willetts, and Sophie Hale.