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Welfare and public health in Belfast

Workshop Programme

Welfare and public health in Belfast and its region, c.1800-1973

This is a collaborative research and dissemination project on the welfare and public health history of Belfast and its hinterland (north-eastern Ulster), informed by three interlinked and co-ordinated case studies focusing on specific dimensions of that history.

Principal Investigator – Professor Peter Gray

Co-Investigator – Dr Olwen Purdue

Research Assistant 1/Project Manager – Dr Georgina Laragy

Research Assistant 2 – Dr Sean Lucey

Project PhD Student – Ms Robyn Atcheson

Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2012-15

Project Office: 15 University Square, Room 202 (ext. 3664). Email: g.laragy@qub.ac.uk

 

For more details on the individual project elements click here

 

Successful Workshop

We were delighted with our first public engagement event held on Friday last (22 February) in the McClay Library. The workshop - ‘Poverty and welfare in comparative urban contexts: Britain and Ireland from the 19th century to the present day’ - saw experts speak about a range of topics including the Poor Law in 19th century London, French-style Magdalen asylums in Dublin, voluntary charitable societies in post-rebellion Cork, and presbyterian responses to the social problems of industrial Glasgow. A contemporary panel on poverty in contemporary Northern Ireland started the day as we heard from the people at Poverty and Social Exclusion including Prof Mike Tomlinson (QUB) and Dr Grace Kelly (QUB). Other speakers included David Green (KCL), Janet Greenlees (Glasgow Caledonian), Jacinta Prunty (NUIM), Virginia Crossman (Oxford Brookes), Larry Geary (U.C.C.). The programme and abstracts can be found here.

Anyone interested in finding out more please contact Project Office at g.laragy@qub.ac.uk