Dear Green place

Is there one thing that creates a sick or healthy society? The number of infections? Genetics perhaps? The choices people make? Providing good health care? Or is it how all these connect? The clues may lie not in what makes a person sick, but what happens across an entire population. Join Mark to explore how connections between individuals, families, friends, society and the environment can impact the health of an entire population; and hear what scientists can learn from computer games like SIMs.

Begging has become more visible on the streets of many UK cities in recent years. Some policy responses, such as ‘moving on’ or arresting people who beg, have been highly controversial. This presentation will review what research tells us about who begs, how they beg, and why. It will also consider what we know about the impacts of ‘hard’ responses (such as arrests), and why it is that opinions on the justifiability (or otherwise) of such approaches are often highly polarised.

The role of the community in welcoming forcibly displaced people – How Refuweegee came to be, what we do, what we’ve learned and what we’d like to do next.

It really is that simple!