Kirsty O'Rourke

📊 We're hiring a Senior Quantitative Manager!

Can you turn data into creative, high-quality analysis and visualisation?

Experienced with applied quantitative methods and using national survey datasets?

Then we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now: https://bit.ly/3LqTdzQ

This is a project about stories, data and community power led by young people in a place living with high deprivation and limited leverage 🗣️

This piece from Dr Tamanda Walker shows how stories of childhood, class and residence bring a sharper lens to patterns of poverty and place-based disadvantage

What happens when residents lead the conversation about poverty?

Online event from @placematters.bsky.social, Roots and Rigour, @justknowledge.bsky.social and JRF on how 'data democracy' can enable gov to think differently about what tackling poverty really means and how it can empower residents 👇

What is life really like in one of England's most deprived towns? Hastings in East Sussex is one of the most deprived local authorities in England, data shows.

Spoke to the BBC about the drivers of deprivation and the impact on families. There's a clear link between living in hardship & feeling socially/politically disconnected.

To make meaningful progress, communities must be involved in decisions affecting their lives.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The origins of Sinn Féin - The History of Parliament In a series of two blogs, our Public Engagement Assistant, Kirsty O'Rourke, will discuss the 20th century history of Sinn Féin. In this first blog, Kirsty

Find out more about the origins of Sinn Féin and the party's central place in 20th century Irish politics on the #HistParl website: historyofparliament.com/2023/09/12/o... [3/3]

Economic and employment growth alone will not be enough to reduce poverty levels Without additional targeted policy action, poverty will not fall between 2025 and 2029.

Find our modelling: www.jrf.org.uk/work/economi...

Read the full UK Poverty report: www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...

4.3 million children are in poverty

UK govt won’t see progress on child poverty by 2029 even with high economic growth 📢

Our analysis shows under our central scenario only Scotland will see child poverty rates fall by 2029 in part due to social security policies 1/5

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