A Healthier Future
The long-term influence of the IAS can perhaps be best traced through a major new research programme on Tipping Points: Mathematics, Metaphors and Meanings, run within the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience. This Leverhulme-funded programme of work has reunited many of the scholars within and beyond Durham who came together initially to work on IAS projects and activities. Many on the original Tipping Points team have been closely associated with the IAS (including Ash Amin, Stuart Lane, Paul Ormerod, and Patricia Waugh).
The metaphor of the ‘tipping point’ describes a critical threshold when everything seems to change at once, when a system (such as the global financial market) suddenly and dramatically changes. This image nicely encapsulates the IAS’s agenda to initiate individual research ideas, events, and collaborations which turn out to have far-reaching consequences. It is therefore fitting that the IAS’s sixth year will be on the theme of Futures II, with a view to building on interdisciplinary ventures within Durham, many of which were seeded by work conducted during the IAS’s first five years of work.
Throughout every past and present IAS theme, one key ambition has been to explain the impact of science upon and within society.
Science can only develop to its full potential if we understand the contexts in which it operates. Nowhere is this clearer than in relation to healthcare. Over recent years, enormous strides have been made to allow many of us to live longer, happier and healthier lives. However, across England there remain great inequalities in levels of wellbeing. New medical technologies and treatments are only one factor in the drive to sustaining human lives in a longer and richer way.
The government commissioned Professor Sir Michael Marmot to lead a widespread review of healthcare inequalities. He presented his findings at a public lecture on A Fairer Society for a Healthier Future.
This was co-hosted with the Durham Forum for Health and the Wolfson Research Institute.
Information about the next IAS theme, on Futures II, can be found at:
www.durham.ac.uk/ias/futures2/
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