School for Policy Studies

The Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences presents the 2024 Jerry Morris Memorial Lecture: ‘Incorporating environmental sustainability of diets into public health policy’ by Professor Pete Scarborough from the University of Oxford.

Date: 14th May 2024

Times: 13:00-14:00 Optional lunch (WMB, Room 3.30)

14:00-15:00 Lecture and questions (WMB, Old Council Chamber)

‘Without changes to our diets it will be impossible to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement of limiting temperature increases to 1.5 degrees, or to meet the UK Government’s Net Zero targets. Policy action to change dietary behaviour in the UK and elsewhere has been tempered by powerful interests and government reluctance to be branded a ‘nanny state’. 

Prof Pete Scarborough will consider the challenges and opportunities that arise from building on current public health policy to incorporate both health and sustainability of diets.’

Seminar 8: The use of family courts to address domestic abuse in England and Wales.

Online event 13:00-13:50 GMT

This is a free event. Joining details will be sent to you upon registration.

Speakers:

Dr Ludivine Garside, University of Bristol, School of Law

Domestic abuse is a known concern in many types of family law cases, both private and public. It affects over half of private child arrangement cases, and two thirds of birth mothers in samples of children subject to care proceedings. However, it remains unknown which types of court users receive protection through Non-Molestation or Occupation Orders granted by family courts. New administrative datasets and linkages can supplement the information already available from national statistics, providing an evidence base to understand how family court users approach domestic abuse matters, their experiences of the family justice system, and how the court responds.
This project is one of the first to gain approval from HM Courts & Tribunals Services (HMCTS) to use de-identified versions of their family court data and linkage to the Children and Families Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass) datasets, insofar as courts refer the case to Cafcass for advice about the safety and best interests of children. The project describes the court journeys and legal outcomes associated to different types of individuals and cases in England and Wales, and how the added understanding at population-level can focus and support discussions about the use of family courts to address domestic abuse.

Seminar 9: A City of Men? Youth Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India

Online event 13:00-13:50 GMT

This is a free event. Joining details will be sent to you upon registration.

Speakers:

Dr Shannon Philip, University of East Anglia

In this talk I explore the gendering of everyday urban spaces and the social production of gendered violence.
Through ethnographic data collected by ‘hanging out’ with young Indian men in New Delhi, I reveal the ways in which their youth masculinities are constructed and performed, and how these in turn produce hostility, fear and violence for young women and girls accessing the same urban spaces. Through weaving together material from myriad urban sites like gyms, bars, trains, street corners, night clubs, gay cruising parks as well as shopping malls, I explore how there is an attempt to make the city a masculine space, with a hypersexualisation of young women in the same spaces. However, this process is not even or uniform, with several masculine anxieties and vulnerabilities also emerging in young men’s claims on the city from queer and non-masculine bodies. In this way, the urban space becomes an interesting palimpsest to explore the politics of gender, class, youth, sexualities and violences on an everyday level.

Seminar 10: The politics of naming and construction: University policies on gender-based violence in the UK

Online event 13:00-13:50 GMT

This is a free event. Joining details will be sent to you upon registration.

Speakers:

Professor Sundari Anitha, Dr Ana Jordan and Dr Nicola Chanamuto, University of Sheffield & Lincoln

It is widely recognised that the problematisation of a social phenomenon is a political process that both constructs the problem and, in doing so, suggests some possible remedies and occludes others. Based on our sector-wide analysis of policies to address gender-based violence (GBV) in 129 UK universities, we examine how the ‘problem’ of GBV is conceptualised in institutional policies.