Social Inequalities Conference

Wednesday 25 September 2024

Social Inequalities Conference

The goal of the Conference is to enable pupils to develop their understanding of poverty and health inequality, and to inspire solutions to these issues from Scotland's next generation.

We are enormously grateful to all of our speakers and our sponsors, whose generous support has helped to make the event possible. 

On this page you can find the presentations from our speakers, as well as links to resources and to our sponsors. 

Speakers' presentations

Click on the image to download the presentations (Powerpoint file) or download the programme from the day, which includes statements of support from our sponsors, here.

Speakers' links and resources

Darren McGarvey

Website

Darren McGarvey’s Scotland

Darren McGarvey’s Addictions

Darren McGarvey’s Class Wars

Darren McGarvey’s The State We’re In

Poverty Safari

The Social Distance Between Us


Chelsea Cameron

X (Twitter)

Letter to parents news story

Honoured by Social Security Scotland

On a mission to help


Lynne Short

Dundee City Council page

Email: [email protected]


Dundee Bairns

Website

Genna Miller (Manager) – [email protected] 


Omni

Website

Louise Ballantyne (Managing Director) – [email protected] 


St Andrews University

Karen Nicolson (GP and Clinical Lecturer)

St Andrews University page

[email protected]


Tayside Council on Alcohol

Website

Carol Bailey(Safe Zone Co-ordinator) –  [email protected]


Scottish Obesity Alliance

Website

Maia Quail (Policy and Partnerships Officer) –  [email protected]


Hillcrest Housing Association

Website

Joy Melville (Tenant Services Manager) – [email protected]


Positive Steps

Website

Bobbi Murray (Support Worker for Positive Pathways) and Sam Garty-Sinclair (Team Leader for Crisis Response Outreach)

[email protected]

[email protected]


Transform Community Development

Website

Bryan Smith (Chief Executive Officer) and Catherine McLaren (Support Services Manager)

[email protected]

[email protected]


Abertay University

Alex Law (Professor of Sociology)

Professor Alexander Law (abertay.ac.uk)


All in Dundee

Website

Facebook page

Robbie Timmons (Performance Manager with Enable Works) – [email protected]


Dundee and Angus Foodbank

Website

Ken Linton (Manager) –  [email protected]


One Parent Families Scotland

Website

Sarah Stewart (Head of Service Support for Families) –  [email protected]


Angus Council

Website

Laura Winter (Team Leader, Protecting People Angus) – [email protected]

Protecting People Angus | Angus Council


Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (WRASAC) Dundee and Angus

Website

Katie Hardy-Jensen (CEO) –  [email protected]

 

Dundee Women’s Aid

Website

Danielle Wylie (Preventions Worker) –  [email protected]

 

Help for Kids

Website

Martel Maxwell (Trustee)

[email protected]

 

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High School of Dundee
Euclid Crescent
Dundee
DD1 1HU

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