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Presentations from 2nd VISION annual conference now available

    We are pleased to provide the presentations from our 2nd annual conference held 21 September 2023 at Mary Ward House in London. 

    The theme was Responding to violence across the life course. Sessions included presentations on childhood and teenage years; working life, poverty & economic impacts; older years; and social inclusion in policy and research. The conference concluded with a panel discussion on violence and complex systems.

    Seventy-seven academics, central and local government officials, practitioners, and voluntary and community sector organisations attended from a range of health and crime / justice disciplines.

    Please feel free to download the presentations below. Each session is one download.

    Photo caption: Dr Ladan Hashemi, Senior Research Fellow at VISION, answers a question after her presentation, ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences and Childhood Obesity:​ Exploring Potential Mediating and Moderating Factors​’

    Download the Welcome slides

    Download the slides from Session 1 – Childhood and teenage years

    Download the slides from Session 2 – Social inclusion in policy & research

    Download the slides from Session 3 – Working life, poverty and economic impacts

    Download the slides from Session 4 – Older people

    VISION Research Fellow chaired European Public Health Association conference symposium

      Dr Anastasia Fadeeva

      We’re delighted that one of VISION’s core researchers, Dr Anastasia Fadeeva, chaired a symposium at the upcoming European Public Health Association (EUPHA) conference in November in Dublin.

      The workshop, Responding to violence and abuse across the life-course, presented a range of analyses – drawing on data from New Zealand, Germany and the UK – that addressed the ways in which violence and abuse manifest at different life stages, including in childhood, among working-age adults, and in later life.

      The presentations highlighted differences across the life course, as well as commonalities. They demonstrated the long-term, even life long, shadow that violence and abuse can cast over people’s health, and provided evidence of the extensive costs for society. Health impacts were shown to be broad, not only anxiety and depression, but substance dependence, chronic physical health conditions, and related health risks such as obesity.

      This symposium comprised four presentations that each considered violence and abuse prevalent at a particular stage of life, and provided evidence to inform the sensitive tailoring of responses from and for families, schools, health and social services, workplace human resource employees, and care and residential homes. 

      For further information on the conference, please see: 16th European Public Health Conference (ephconference.eu)

      Or contact Anastasia at anastasia.fadeeva@city.ac.uk

      Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash