Loneliness: The next five years conference
15th November 2023
The Campaign to End Loneliness shows how you can get involved and showcase your own work in the organisation’s upcoming conference on Thursday 8 February 2024.
[embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU-wGvvONhI[/embedyt]Loneliness: the next five years
- Our online conference is the largest international conference dedicated to tackling loneliness. It brings together delegates from civil society, business, academia, and politics to celebrate the people and organisations who are making a difference, showcasing innovative approaches to tackling loneliness from across the world.
- In 2018, the UK Government appointed the world’s first minister for loneliness and launched its first loneliness strategy. Five years on, there has been concerted action by government and all parts of society, as well as a global pandemic, that led almost all of us to live in physical isolation and to reflect on the meaning of our relationships.
- As we look forward to the next five years, we must, as a community of people working on loneliness, continue to move the issue forwards.
Key themes and topics
Under the overarching theme of Loneliness: The next five years, we have designed the conference to explore key issues identified by the loneliness community that will be crucial in developing our understanding of what works in tackling loneliness as we look forward to the next five years. With a combination of keynotes, panels and poster presentations, the conference will explore themes and topics such as:- The perspective of leading politicians
- The future of digital interventions
- Loneliness inequalities
- The experience of loneliness amongst marginalised communities
- Young people and loneliness
- The built environment and creating a spread of inclusive, accessible spaces
- Arts and creativity