Bristol Poverty Institute presents
Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals: From the Local to the Global
The Sixth Peter Townsend Memorial Conference
27-29 April 2021 (online)
In April 2021 the Bristol Poverty Institute (BPI) held a three-day online conference about Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals: From the Local to the Global as part of the biennial Peter Townsend Memorial Conference series. This international, interdisciplinary online conference included sessions on a wide range of topics, including formal presentations, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities. The conference attracted a broad audience, with over 200 people registered from 32 different countries representing the public, private, and civil sectors alongside academics from across the globe at all career stages from PhD researchers to senior professors.
The interdisciplinary programme for this conference was broadly framed around how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can help to reduce poverty. The conference featured a wide range of speakers and participants from all over the world bringing different theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches to the analysis and mitigation of poverty. Speakers came rom 13 different countries and six continents representing a range of sectors, with 42% of speakers from sectors outside academia. The conference was structured around six broad thematic sessions aligning with the Bristol Poverty Institute’s areas of research focus: Child Health and Development, Education, Engaging with Policy and Practice, Food and Nutrition, Livelihoods and Debt, and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.
All of the conference sessions were recorded and are now available to view on the BPI website where you can also find many of the presentation slides as well as the fantastic visual minutes (see below).
