Rowntree Revisited: 125 years on

Speakers: Natasha Almond, Karen Rowlingson, Nick Smith and Victoria Hughes (chair)

125 years on from Seebohm Rowntree’s landmark study of poverty in York, a new question is coming into focus: how do we study wealth in the city today and what might it reveal?

In revisiting Rowntree's study, our expert panel will discuss new research to explore wealth, looking at who owns land, housing and assets, and how that shapes everyday life.

Poverty remains a pressing concern, but it cannot be understood - or addressed - without also examining wealth. As ownership becomes more concentrated and often disconnected from place, join us for a conversation about what we can learn from studying wealth, and how it might reshape how we understand inequality in York today.

Our speakers include:

• Karen Rowlingson, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of York and a leading expert on how wealth and assets shape our social fabric
• Nick Smith, Executive Director of The Rowntree Society
• Natasha Almond, Director of Good Organisation, which supports communities to develop locally rooted, ethical economic activity

The session will be chaired by Victoria Hughes, Associate Director for the Regional Programme in the Emerging Futures team at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

This event is part of the Festival Focus series ‘Mapping Wealth, Ownership and Place in York’ presented in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. You may also be interested in ‘’ on Friday 12 June from 1pm to 2.30pm.

About the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is an independent social change organisation whose mission is to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.

Image credit: Poverty map by Seebohm Rowntree, 1901. The Rowntree Society.

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