Are you an early career researcher looking for a new challenge? Are you interested in furthering connections between the University of Leeds and Leeds City Council? Would you like to develop dataset connections, create the infrastructure for effective partnership collaborations and contribute to more effective local policy making? If so,...
Linking Leeds with DfT webinars are co-organised by the Leeds Social Sciences Institute and Department for Transport, in order to help build a richer connection between the academic and policy worlds. This talk considered what future resilient cities might look like and how resilience can be built into future transport...
LSSI (Leeds Social Sciences Institute) have been successful in their application for additional funding for the Leeds IAA (Impact Acceleration Account) from the competitive ESRC Local Acceleration Fund (LAF). Work will build upon and accelerate the implementation of the twelve recommendations and action plan resulting from the report ‘Unlocking the Potential of Civic Collaboration: A...
The Campaign for Social Science (the advocacy voice of the Academy of Social Sciences) has launched a new digital ‘hub’, designed to bring together the social science community’s response to COVID-19. The Hub draws on existing, on-going and planned work across the social sciences in the UK and the purpose...
Dr Eleni Iacovidou and Professor Andrew Brown received ‘Responsive Mode’ funding through our ESRC IAA in 2018 for their project which explored ‘key metrics for supporting national and local government waste policy improvements.’ You can read more about their original IAA project here. Since then, they have gone on to...
In order to support activities that will contribute towards understanding and addressing the Covid-19 pandemic, we are holding a Rapid Action Fund call to allow us to rapidly and flexibly provide funding for research with the potential to address the Covid-19 crisis. The current call features a light-touch application form...
The University of Leeds and Leeds City Council have a history of fruitful collaborative relationships. We have now embarked upon a Review of Collaborations to help enhance the value and impact of the research and policy partnerships and maximise the benefits of collaborative working in responding to social, environmental and...
On Tuesday 3 March, LSSI brought together researchers from the University of Leeds with policy makers, analysts, and strategists from the Department for Transport (DfT) for a one-day collaborative event in central London. 15 University of Leeds Researchers and 20 colleagues from DfT came together to present research, discuss effective...
‘Enhancing Urban Safety and Crime Prevention through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships’ was the focus of a major international workshop funded by the British Council that took place from the 17-19th February 2020 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Organised by Professor Adam Crawford (Director of LSSI) and Dr Emilio Ayos of the University of...
“What an amazing event! An energetic & inspiring chance for us to look at the participatory work is going on… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…”
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“Afternoon session of the Co-production event started with LSSI Director, Louise Waite sharing the news on our new 5… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…”
