Whatever Happened to Equality? Debates
Videos from an event held at Newcastle University, 10th November 2012

Sponsored by Economic and Social Research Council
and hosted by Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal

Participants taking part in our documentary-making workshop programme recorded the panel debates held as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science. Filming facilitated by Jackie Scollen.

Equality, Equity and the dispossessed

The notions of equality and equity are widely used and yet people's understanding of their meaning differs hugely. This can make it difficult to know what people are talking about when they argue for greater equality - is it equal rights? Equal access to education? Equal opportunity? Equal pay? All of the above? This session will interrogate these differences and ask in what contexts is a more equal society a better one? Speakers Dr Vikki Boliver of Durham University and Christopher Snowdon, author of The Spirit Level Delusion explored the issues with a general audience.

Equality, Equity and the dispossessed

• Equality versus Difference
  Why has difference replaced equality as the central theme of feminist and anti-racist politics over the last three decades? What has been lost and gained by this shift of emphasis?
  Speakers
  Dr Davina Cooper, author, Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference
  Max Wind-Cowie, Head of the Progressive Conservatism Project, Demos
  Dolan Cummings, Associate Fellow, Institute of Ideas
  Chair: Mo Lovatt

Equality versus Difference part 1

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