“When available, support for homeless people is often only for a short time, not co-ordinated with other services, and fails to meet all of a person’s needs.”
Prof Monique Lhussier,
See Me North Project Co-Lead
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Conferences,
Talks, and Presentations.
PRESENTATION
Dr Christina Cooper delivered two panel presentations at the 3rd International arts and Homelessness Summit in January 2025, speaking about trauma informed care and the importance of coproductive research in creative approaches to tackling homelessness which you can read more about here! YouTube videos to follow soon.
CONFERENCE
Dr Christina Cooper chaired the national homelessness conference in January 2024, introducing the See me North project and gaining insights from experts working in the field of homelessness from across the UK.
PRESENTATION
Professor Monique Lhussier presented some aspects of the project at the launch of the Inclusion Health strategy of the North East North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, on the7th February 2025, focusing on how the research process itself should help people with lived experience grow.
You can watch a recording of the presentation here!
PRESENTATION
Alex Kirton and Tom Astley presented the See Me North project at the Association of Public Service Excellence Online seminar on tackling the homelessness crisis in October 2024 which you can read more about here!
PRESENTATION
Tom Astley and Alex Kirton delivered a presentation on See Me North at the ARC NENC Inequalities and Marginalised Communities Theme event on Multiple and Complex needs in October 2024.
You can read more about the event and download slides here, and also read a Northumbria Uni article about the event here!
PRESENTATION
Co-lead Christina Cooper presented at the Arts and Homelessness International Summit in London, January 2025:
You can watch a video of the presentation here!
ROUNDTABLE
Co-lead Monique Lhussier addressed the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health in the House of Lords, Westminster, March 2025.
You can watch a video of the event here!
PRESENTATION
The project significantly shaped the NENC ICB inclusion health strategy, which was launched on the 07/02/2025; 150 people attended from across the NENC health and care system. Co-lead Monique Lhussier presented the project as part of this; the event was recorded and made available as part of the ICB Boost Learning Academy, which you can watch here.
Blog.
We’re in the process of developing a dedicated See Me North project blog which is coming soon!
In the meantime, you can read this blog post that we contributed to the Fuse open science blog about redesigning support for people who have experienced homelessness.
Academic Publications.
Coming Soon
Report: Woman of the North
Christina Cooper contributed to understandings of women's homelessness in the Woman of the North report, presented in parliament in September 2024. You can download the report in full here!
