Co-hosted by Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, and Changing Futures Lancashire

About this event

Fuse researchers have partnered up with Changing Futures Lancashire to showcase emerging findings from various studies and practice, exploring how stigma shows up in people’s lives and how to reduce stigma for people who experience multiple disadvantage. There will be presentations from lived experience experts, researchers, and practitioners across this two-hour online event.

Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions to the speakers, as well as reflect on their key learning and take-away action points to reduce stigma across their organisations and everyday encounters.

What will I gain from this event?

This event will provide an overview of stigma, how this is experienced by people who experience multiple disadvantage, and the harm this can do to health and wellbeing. Dr Cassey Muir will present emerging findings from a review that was commissioned through AskFuse (the responsive research and evaluation service run by Fuse) by Changing Futures Lancashire, exploring what works to reduce stigma for people who experience multiple disadvantage. Public and practice partners helped shape the key findings and recommendations from this review.

The second half of the event will showcase the work and impact of the Changing Futures Lancashire partnership. Changing Futures is a programme that aims to improve outcomes for adults experiencing multiple disadvantage, including combinations of homelessness, substance use, mental health issues, domestic abuse and contact with the criminal justice system. The lead organisation Blackburn with Darwen Council have aimed to work together with local partners to facilitate the reform of how services are delivered to improve outcomes for this group of beneficiaries.

Who should attend?

This event will be of interest to public health practitioners and academics in Health, Sociology, and Criminology, as well as health and social care practitioners, people who feel marginalised or minoritised by society and/or services, members of the public, and staff or volunteers who work in organisations in the voluntary sector who have an interest in stigma.

Speaker details:

Dr Cassey Muir – Research Associate, Fuse – Newcastle University

Lydia Lochhead – Senior Research Assistant, Fuse – Northumbria University

Dr William McGovern – Associate Professor of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Fuse – Northumbria University

Dr Victoria Carlisle – Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol

Colleagues from Changing Futures Lancashire

Lived Experience Experts from Fuse and Changing Futures Lancashire