Whatever Happened to Equality? Speaker Interviews
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 film-making workshop interviewed speakers at a day of active debate and documentary-making held as part of ESRC Festival of Social Science. Filming facilitated by Jackie Scollen.

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 discussed "Equality, Equity and the dispossessed".

Vikki Boliver on Equality, Equity and the dispossessed

Christopher Snowdon on Equality, Equity and the dispossessed

Has difference replaced equality as the central theme of feminist and anti-racist politics over the last three decades? Dr Davina Cooper, author of Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference; Max Wind-Cowie, Head of the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos and Dolan Cummings, Associate Fellow at Institute of Ideas reflected on what has been lost and gained by this shift of emphasis in Equality versus Difference.

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