Poverty Unpacked podcast

Time for another Poverty Unpacked chat!

This month features new child poverty estimates, pressure on parents due to focus on early childhood, mismatch between policy makers' attitudes and evidence, and EU Anti-Poverty Strategy PLUS what's on in October in the month of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Check out all the links and more on poverty-unpacked.org

How to address poverty in schools?

Check out this conversation with journalist and author Sean Harris on small but powerful tweaks to classroom practices as well as big and bold policy change beyond school grounds.

More information about this episode and all other episodes on https://poverty-unpacked.org

Time for another Poverty Unpacked chat!

This month features research on poverty in new housing areas in UK and the role of coloniality in social protection policy in Africa. Plus celebrating six months since publication of The Empathy Fix book!

Check out all the links and more on https://poverty-unpacked.org

With only five years to go before the goal of ending extreme child poverty, we are off track to achieve this. But there are valuable lessons from countries that have made significant progress to accelerate efforts.

In this episode, we discuss what works to reduce child poverty with members of the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty.

Find out more on poverty-unpacked.org.

Round up of news on poverty from around the world by host Dr Keetie Roelen.

From reports on child poverty to a call for submission for monologues on homelessness - listen now.

For list of links to all items in this episode, head over to poverty-unpacked.org

Ending poverty requires mass movements. Real change only happens when people come together and stand up against the injustice of poverty.

In this episode, we speak with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back about their

book ‘You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take: Lessons From the Movement to End Poverty’.

Find out more on https://poverty-unpacked.org

Poverty in the UK is high and on the rise. Announced cuts will send more families into poverty.

In this episode, I discuss the latest figures, implications of the announced welfare cuts and importance of redistribution for breaking intergenerational poverty.

Homelessness in the UK is on the rise. Can direct financial support to people experiencing homelessness make a difference?

In this episode, we speak with Greater Change CEO Jonathan Tan to discuss their novel way of working with frontline service providers to help individuals and generating evidence to affect policy change.

Find out more on poverty-unpacked.org

Poverty Unpacked chats are back!

In January 2025, hear about forthcoming book The Empathy Fix, two new reports on astonishing and infuriating wealth inequality and providing input on the issue of welfare and conditionality.

Have you wondered about those armrests on park benches, or spikes on ledges or in hidden corners? They're examples of defensive design and hostile architecture.

In this episode, urban planning expert Cara Chellew explains how hostile design of public spaces affects some of the most vulnerable and makes them less appealing to all.

Check out more on https://poverty-unpacked.org