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Fairness Design: Re-Thinking Digital Government Forms as Sites of Dignity and Mutual Understanding

Date
, 13:00 - 14:00

Link Seminar - March 2024 A seminar series designed to connect academic knowledge with pressing policy agendas Presented by DWP in collaboration with the Universities of Leeds, Loughborough, Sheffield and York, LINK is a webinar series designed to help build richer connections between the academic, policy and analytical worlds by providing an opportunity to hear from...

Go Fund Yourself? Funding and the Future of High Growth Startups in the Leeds City Region

Date
, 12:00 - 16:30

Since the onset of COVID-19, recent empirical evidence has revealed substantial funding gaps across various regions within the UK. This, as a result, hindered start-ups from scaling up their operations, created further barriers to entering foreign markets, and contributed to the productivity conundrum facing the UK. This workshop seeks to propose evidence-based solutions to build...

Sexual Identity, Disclosure and Pay Gaps in the National Health Service

Date
, 13:00 - 14:00

Link Seminar - February 2024 A seminar series designed to connect academic knowledge with pressing policy agendas Presented by DWP in collaboration with the Universities of Leeds, Loughborough, Sheffield and York, LINK is a webinar series designed to help build richer connections between the academic, policy and analytical worlds by providing an opportunity to hear from...

Hardship upon hardship: the two-child limit, the benefit cap and the cost of living crisis

Date
, 13:00 - 14:00

Link Seminar - January 2024 A seminar series designed to connect academic knowledge with pressing policy agendas Presented by DWP in collaboration with the Universities of Leeds, Loughborough, Sheffield and York, LINK is a webinar series designed to help build richer connections between the academic, policy and analytical worlds by providing an opportunity to hear from...

Carer’s Allowance: how well does it support unpaid carers? What can we learn from recent Scottish reform?

Date
, 13:00 - 14:00

Link Seminar - November 2023 We’ll be joined by Professor Sue Yeandle and Becky Driscoll from the Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield.  Title: Carer’s Allowance: how well does it support unpaid carers? What can we learn from recent Scottish reform?  Abstract: Unpaid carers are under growing financial pressure. Carers UK found that a...

Her City - Making Women Visible In The Design Of Open Spaces

Date
, 12:00-14:00

A Festival of Social Science Event What’s on offer? Two workshops to empower the local women in Leeds in designing and shaping the built environment for a better and safer community (20-25 participants each session).   The face to face workshops will be split into two age range groups between (16-25 year olds) and (25-70 year...

Midlife lows in human wellbeing

Date
, 18:00-20:00

  A Festival of Social Science Event What’s on offer? A light-hearted look at what the social science says about our (un)happiness in midlife. This presentation will also include and discuss voluntary audience viewpoints and opinions.  Following the talk there will be an open discussion with Q&A. What’s it about? An engaging presentation of the...

Supporting young people who have an illness

Date
, 17:30-19:30

A Festival of Social Science Event When you know, you meet, you are educating or you are employing a young person living with or after cancer or another illness, what simple things can you do to support them?  Lifelong wellbeing theme What’s on offer? We wish to share our recent research into not only cancer but...