Events

Universal Basic Services (UBS) Roundtable: Challenges, opportunities and future for UBS

Experts from policy, politics, and research examined the challenges facing Britain’s core public services from criminal justice to the NHS, at the Institute for Government Public Services Conference.

Henrietta was on the panel ‘Funding public services: What do spending plans mean for performance?’

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The 19th William Pitt Seminar considered how to bridge the divide between young and old to create a fairer and more successful society.

Henrietta talked about the importance of social solidarity, collaboration, why we need to think differently about the economy to improve the state of life for older and younger generations in the UK.

She also highlighted how the UCL Citizen Science Academy is providing opportunities for young people and changing the way research is being conducted with ordinary citizens embedded in our research teams.

The IGP celebrated the launch of our Prosperity Index and Dashboard, with keynote speakers including Prof. Dame Henrietta Moore, Mayor of Newham Rokhsana Fiaz, and others. At the event, we unveiled the new Citizen Prosperity Index and Dashboard and shared the latest insights from our Prosperity in East London 2021–2031 longitudinal study.

“In March we celebrated our tenth Anniversary with a series of Lebanon-themed events in London, in collaboration with our Prosperity Co-Laboratory for Lebanon (PROCOL Lebanon). We reflected on many geo-political and social issues affecting us in this historical time in Palestine, Lebanon and the Middle East. They reminded us of the importance of sharing experiences and exchanging knowledge even at the most difficult of times. I would like to thank all the speakers and everyone involved.” - HLM

The politics of decolonial investigations and the ethics of solidarity’ brought together academics, thinkers, citizen scientists and innovators to explore the kinds of ethical forms of knowledge production and social solidarity that must drive action towards better social, economic and environmental futures, that challenge colonial structures of domination and global epistemic injustice. 

UCL Citizen Prosperity Index and Dashboard Launch

A Just Transition, or Just a Transition?: Energy and Climate in the Middle East and North Africa with Keynote by Dr Manal Shehabi

As part of the UCL Institute of Global Prosperity’s 10th Anniversary Celebrations, this Lebanon Week Public Lecture examined the challenges and opportunities of achieving a just, climate-resilient energy transition in the MENA region, with a focus on Lebanon. Dr. Shehabi highlighted how ambitious energy transition and net-zero targets could either drive equitable, sustainable development or risk reinforcing existing vested interests. The lecture also explored the role of research in shaping fair and sustainable pathways for the region and beyond.

Book Launch for Prosperity in the 21st Century Book Launch: How can we adapt our prosperity thinking for the 21st century?

October 2023

For the first Director's Seminar of the academic year, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity is celebrating the publication of the second book in its ‘Global Prosperity Thought and Practice’ series.

Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century. Concepts, models and metrics sets out a new vision for prosperity in the twenty-first century and how it can be achieved for all.

Speakers at this event will include Professor Jo Beall (LSE), Dr Matthew Davies (University of Cambridge), Dr Marit Hammond (Keele University) and Dr Ruth Yeoman (Kellogg College, University of Oxford), and the event will be chaired by UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Director Professor Henrietta L. Moore.

Unlocking Social Value brought together speakers from across the built environment sector to examine how development can generate greater social value for communities. The conference keynote speakers explored the definition of social value in the built environment and how to unlock its potential for the communities we serve.

In the opening session, Professor Henrietta L. Moore delivered a keynote alongside other sector leaders. She underscored the importance of looking beyond traditional measures of economic growth to assess social value, challenging conventional models of development and advocating approaches that prioritise community wellbeing.read more here: https://www.futureoflondon.org.uk/news/conference-unlocking-social-value/

Professor Henrietta Moore opens the launch of the UCL Citizen Science Academy.

The first session of the UCL Citizen Science Academy launch that took place on 5th May 2023 includes opening statements from the IGP's Director Henrietta Moore, and from UCL President and Provost Dr. Michael Spence, as well as presentations from: Dr Saffron Woodcraft, Principal Research Fellow at the IGP; Solomon Ole Ntaiyia, Citizen Scientist, PROCOL Africa; Timothy Kipkeu Kipruto, Chief Citizen Scientist & Director Marakwet Research Station.

On the 4th of May, the IGP launched UCL's Citizen Science Academy, an ambitious new initiative to deliver community-based, practice-led research training to empower communities to lead change through social action and shaping policies that impact their livelihoods.

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This conference aims to discuss, connect and reflect on the complexity of the current crises by focusing on both theories and stories about the forces for good that help to support and sustain us. In particular, the conference explores the themes of uncertainty, solidarity, activism and energetics to identify new intersections between collapse, potential futures, emancipatory politics and environmental regeneration. A series of keynotes will be held on each theme, and interventions will be grouped into panels on each of the four themes.

This event brought together leading panellists to reflect on their experiences of UBS and the welfare system over the past decade. The roundtable featured voices from across the UBS, social policy, and public services space, discussing the challenges they have faced, the opportunities they identified, and their perspectives on the future of UBS and the welfare state. Panellists also explored how experimentation and scaling of service provision might unfold over the next 10 years.

The discussion was chaired by Prof. Dame Henrietta L. Moore and featured Andrew Percy – Co-chair, IGP Social Prosperity Network, Will Snell – Chief Executive, Fairness Foundation, Dr. Lorena Lombardozzi – Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Development, SOAS, Katy Wiese – Policy Manager for Economic Transition and Gender Equality, European Environmental Bureau, and Max Harris – Barrister, campaigner and writer.

Keele World Affairs is Europe's Leading Series of Lecture Meetings on International Politics and Global Issues. Keele World Affairs is deeply interested to learn how Africans can create a better life, especially in view of both population growth and excessive emigration to Europe. Therefore, Professor Henrietta L. Moore, Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Chair in Culture Philosophy and Design at University College London (UCL), was invited to speak about regenerative agriculture in the context of Africa. Watch the meeting recording to find out her perspective as an anthropologist with interests in well-being, institutional change, citizenship, and social justice

Is economic growth essential to human prosperity and wellbeing? Can it be reconciled with environmental sustainability? Or do the converging ecological crises we are now facing, from climate change to biodiversity collapse, compel us to rethink the imperative of economic growth? Professor Henrietta L. Moore took part in a public panel discussion which addressed these overarching questions, while also exploring what a world ‘beyond growth’ would actually look like, how we might get there, and what governance processes would have to be in place to ensure that it is socially inclusive.

Henrietta spoke at the Global Solutions Summit 2022, contributing to the session “Towards a New Understanding of Prosperity.” She emphasised the need to promote social wellbeing within planetary boundaries and to redefine shared prosperity in order to address the global challenges of pandemics, climate change, and poverty. The session was curated by Katharina Lima de Miranda, Research Director of the Global Solutions Initiative and Program Manager for Measuring Prosperity at The New Institute, and moderated by journalist Declan Curry.

As part of the Summit, which engaged with the priorities of the G20 and G7, the discussion served as a stepping stone toward the G/T20 and G/T7 Summits, providing a platform for T20 and Think7 Task Forces to share policy insights and for multi-stakeholder decision-makers to explore collective approaches to pressing global issues.

Symposium: The Politics of Decolonial Investigations and the Ethics of Solidarity

March 2024

Henrietta delivered a keynote lecture entitled “Beyond Coronavirus: How Does the World Recover?”.

The event examined the health and socio-economic impact of Covid-19 on the world’s most vulnerable countries. Following the keynote, Professor Diarmuid O’Donovan, Clinical Professor at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, offered reflections as discussant. Ann Watt, Director of Pivotal Public Policy Forum, facilitated a lively Q&A session, fielding questions from the live online audience.

The proceedings opened with remarks from Professor Ian Greer, President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University, and concluded with closing reflections from Professor Stuart Elborn, Pro-Vice-Chancellor.

February 2023

Prof Dame Henrietta L. Moore & Prof Sir Charles Godfray in conversation: "Rethinking planetary prosperity: are we measuring what we value?

June 2021

The Dasgupta Review has made a strong call for the fundamental rebuilding of economic models in ways that inherently value nature. These are welcome findings, coming at a time when existing economic structures, extractive systems and patterns of consumption are eroding ecological resilience and exceeding planetary limits. Yet the imperative for new economies that value biodiversity and ecosystem health as foundational for human wellbeing leaves us with a host of challenges and opportunities centred on how we may best build alternative economic infrastructures in inclusive and sustainable ways. This endeavour is unavoidably bound up with questions of how different communities understand social and ecological prosperity and how this should be researched and measured.

This discussion takes stock of how research traditions within the social sciences that are attuned to the diversity of human livelihoods, value systems and collaborative research methods are of urgent necessity for designing new socio-natural economies and planetary prosperity for all.

LIDC and the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL (IGP) welcomed over 100 attendees to a large-scale, participative conference. The event explored a citizen-science approach to monitoring and evaluating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conference also examined the support necessary to achieve the SDGs’ aspirations. 

LIDC and the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL (IGP) welcomed over 100 attendees to a large-scale, participative conference. Entitled “SDGeneration: A Citizen Science Movement”, the event explored a citizen-science approach to monitoring and evaluating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conference also examined the support necessary to achieve the SDGs’ aspirations.

Professor Henrietta Moore, reflected on how the international community could galvanise young people to monitor and evaluate the SDGs. 

https://lidc.ac.uk/sdgeneration-a-citizen-science-movement/

This talk was part of the "Connecting Through Time" session at TEDxOxbridge "Timeless Ideas" in Oxford, England at the Said Business School.

Discussion of Dr. Justin Gest's "Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West" by Henrietta Moore, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Prof. Moore questioned current ways of thinking about economic growth, prosperity and development. How does economic growth translate into sustainable prosperity? 

What is the future for Africa in the 21st century? African governments, policy makers, activists and citizens have mapped out their own visions and priorities, but how can these pathways to prosperity be realised? This lecture discusses the challenges and constraints Africa faces, but also the forms of innovation and public purpose that provide a blueprint for the future. Professor Henrietta Moore argues that the first step towards prosperity is to recognise the disabling effects of our current thinking about the economic models underpinning theories of development and change.

Professor Henrietta Moore delivers a talk at the Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research (EIAR). This talk was given at an ETHICOBOTS - (Ethiopia Control of Bovine Tuberculosis Strategies) meeting, hosted by the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) in Addis Ababa.

The RELIEF Centre is a centre for research and learning focused on inclusive growth and prosperity. It is about the prosperity of Lebanon in particular, but it is also part of a larger agenda for developing sustainable ways to improve the quality of life of people throughout the world. In every country in the world, the means and mechanisms to turn the wealth our economies generate into prosperity, and to share the benefits of that prosperity more evenly across all social groups, is severely lacking. This is one of the major challenges for future global prosperity. The RELIEF Centre brings Lebanese and UK institutions and expertise together to address this challenge.

Beyond Coronavirus: How does the world recover? at Queen’s University Belfast

Humanity is facing unprecedented challenges from a population growing to 10 billion by 2050, and accelerating degradation of the planet and its resources. At the same time, exponential technological changes are making the world smarter, faster and more connected, but with unanticipated consequences.

Engineers are crucial to the international effort to address these rapidly evolving, unpredictable challenges. We need to embed collaboration, diversity, and global responsibility into the solutions we create, transforming the way engineers work, think, and are taught. Engineers have the power to help make a better world for the citizens of 2050, but only if we transform engineering and embrace that responsibility today.

Video shown at the Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 in London. GGCS 2019 is the launch of a second series of summits jointly hosted by the UK, US and Chinese academies of engineering.

March 2021

A two-day virtual Symposium featuring four sessions of invited talks. The Symposium examined lessons from the pandemic, new integrated modelling approaches that emerged from the crisis, and recommendations for building more resilient systems to guard against future shocks. Leading international experts presented innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to support recovery strategies.

Henrietta contributed to the panel “Which Normality?” which explored the medium-term economic effects of the pandemic, including potential long-term shifts in productivity and the nature of work, the implications of rising public and private debt, and the links between inequality and health. The session was moderated by Claude Lavoie, Director General of Economic Studies and Policy Analysis at Finance Canada, and featured Rick Bookstaber, Chief Risk Officer for the Office of the CIO, University of California, and Bill Janeway, Special Limited Partner at Warburg Pincus.

The Clean Growth Leadership Network (CGLN) in partnership with the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) will reflect on climate change developments, COP26, Covid-19 and where to go from here if we are to build societal resilience and prosperity in an age unprecedented global changes.

• Joan MacNaughton – Climate Group

• Professor Dame Henrietta Moore – Institute for Global Prosperity

• Steve Killelea – Institute for Economics and Peace

Discussion moderated by Lea Perekrests – Institute for Economics and Peace

Henrietta participated in a Rebuilding Macroeconomics workshop on The Institutions of Globalisation. Rebuilding Macroeconomics is a Network started by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

In this talk, Professor Moore calls for the reinvention and renewal of societies institutions, and the necessity to bring them in line with the challenges that we face in the 21st century. She discussed her thoughts on the current issues regarding globalisation as well as its effect on domestic labour markets.

For a full summary of the workshop, visit - https://www.rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk/the-institutions-of-globalisation-globalisation-hub-workshop-summary/ 

The Greater London National Park committee invited Professor Henrietta Moore, Director of the IGP, to speak at the Reimagine London conference in February.

Prof. Moore argues that intellectual thinking is in a renaissance phase. This thinking, she says, needs to be driven towards who we want to be and how we want to live in the future. This affects the designs of our streets as well as our economy.