Cost of living crisis - can research really make any difference?

No-one is unaffected by the current cost of living crisis. A perfect storm of national and global circumstances has led to pressures on all that are, certainly for many in the UK, unprecedented in scale and impact. Can research and researchers really have any impact on this crisis? Should we put down the tools of research to instead join the front line of those trying to make a difference at the coal face?

Professor Lymer, in this inaugural lecture, argues that research plays a pivotal role in understanding what is really happening currently. It challenges our practices and behaviours and offers new ways of thinking in particular in this case, about our relationship with money and wealth that could aid us in addressing the current issues faced. However, done well, it can also help to develop improved resilience and financial wellbeing that will better prepare us all for similar future challenges – personally or as a society. He will draw on his own work, and those of others engaged in this area, to highlight what differences research can make to this ‘wicked challenge’ and suggest areas in which more work is needed.

This is a hybrid event. You can choose to attend in-person or online. If registering to attend online, you will be sent a link closer to the time.

Register to attend in-person here.