King's College London

Over 150 people attended yesterday’s webinar in the Homelessness series at King's, in which Karl Mason, Senior Lecturer and MSc Social Work Course Lead at Royal Holloway, University of London, shared emerging findings from his PhD research which provides important insights into the experiences of assessment processes, practices and outcomes from the perspective of people experiencing homelessness.

In a section of his presentation with application beyond the field of homelessness, Karl explained some of the theoretical underpinning of his study, encouraging attendees to think through what we mean when we talk about 'needs' and highlighting the relevance of the work of Axel Honneth (on recognition) and Miranda Fricker (on epistemic injustice). See Karl's slides.

Webinar participants thanked Karl ‘for an excellent presentation and discussion’ which was described as ‘very informative and eye opening’, ‘thought provoking’ and a ‘really insightful webinar. Gave me more to think about. Much appreciated’.

‘Thank you so much, this has been so informative and great for further thinking and reflection. Brilliant research.’

Coming up

The next webinar in this series is Memory loss and physical frailty amongst people experiencing homelessness on 12 December 2024 with speakers Penny Rapaport and Jo Dawes from University College London.

Please get in touch with Jess Harris if you would like to join the mailing list for the Homelessness series to hear about future events.

Header image: Karl's title slide.