Unconditional
Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Date & time
20 October 2025 | 18.00-20.30
Event format
Attend event in person, Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Event type
Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Event topic
Education, Equality, Global insecurity & risk, Health and wellbeing, Identity, My local area, Our working lives, Politics & protest, Poverty, housing & homelessness
Audience
Young People, Adults
Academic discipline
Economic and social history, Economics management and business studies, Education, Law, Politics and international relations, Social anthropology, Sociology and social policy
Venue
Roseberry Road Studios. 28 Roseberry Road. #25. Bath. BA2 3DX
What's on offer?
A film screening (30 mins) followed by a panel discussion
What's it about?
What would it mean to help the poor without preconditions?
To address the precarity at the heart of poverty? To stand in solidarity, not offer charity, with those who are marginalised and forgotten?
Unconditional is a 30-minute documentary that explores two groundbreaking policy experiments in India and Bangladesh. These initiatives combined Universal Basic Income (UBI) with grassroots community organiser support across five urban slums in Dhaka and Hyderabad. The result? A powerful demonstration of what’s possible when social assistance is rooted in care, connection, and justice.
Told through the voices of participants themselves, Unconditional challenges conventional approaches to poverty and social welfare. It points toward a future where unconditionality is not a radical idea, but the foundation of compassionate and effective policy.
Following the screening, join us for a 60-minute panel Q&A with experts in social policy, economics, and lived experience. Together, we’ll explore the relevance of UBI in today’s world, from global poverty to local precarity, and ask: what kind of society do we want to build?
Why You Should Come:
Learn how Universal Basic Income works in practice; not just theory.
Hear from those whose lives were transformed by unconditional support.
Engage with a panel of experts and practitioners on the future of social policy.
Explore how UBI could address inequality, insecurity, and marginalisation in your own community.
Be inspired by a vision of solidarity over charity, and justice over judgment.
Who Is This For?
Whether you're a policymaker, activist, student, researcher, or simply curious about new approaches to social justice, this event is for you. Universal Basic Income is not just an economic idea; it’s a human one.
Who's leading the event?
Dr Neil Howard.
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Centre for Development Studies
Open to
Everyone
Of particular interest to
Everyone
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