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MPP Seminar: Community Resilience

Community resilience: policy, adversity and everyday life - Dr. Katy Wright, Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds - Friday 18th November, 4 pm, C001, Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington  Building, UCD

In an increasingly uncertain context and in the face of risks like climate change, pandemics, energy crises and rapid increases in the cost of living, the need to develop resilience seems ever more urgent.  However, our understanding of how resilience can be enhanced or what it might look like remains somewhat unclear. In this talk, Dr Katy Wright (University of Leeds) will discuss the topic of community resilience, exploring how we might understand and engage with resilience beyond limited neoliberal policy framings. This will involve exploring the relationship between resilience and vulnerability, and considering what a critical model of resilience might look like and what it could offer to the study of policy.  The talk will offer insights into how people’s resilience strategies are shaped and affected by broader policy decisions and draw out some conclusions and questions for future research. 

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