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,...
Six fully-funded ESRC PhD Studentships in linked project areas of policing vulnerabilities associated with the Vulnerability and Policing Future Research Centre Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, and the interactions between them and other service providers? Do you...
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...
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PGR student to work on a project with Meanwood Valley Partnership (MVP). Application deadline – Monday 31st January 2022. Meanwood Valley Partnership (MVP) is a local community organisation that works to deliver a range of different projects that improve life along the Meanwood Valley. The...
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PGR student to work on a project with Humankind. Humankind is committed to reducing deprivation and exclusion and to improving people’s well-being. We have over 1,300 staff and around 100 volunteers providing services for around 86,000 people. Our specialist services include substance use, clinical, employment training...
PhD Researchers who are undertaking their PhD as a funded studentship as part of the prestigious White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ASRC), are gathering at the University of Leeds this week . They will be attending a symposium of talks around...
Social Security During COVID-19: Public Attitudes and Experiences of Welfare at a Social Distance IAA Funded Project Outcome There were good reasons to think COVID-19 would increase public support for welfare: initially, it was a time of apparent increased solidarity in the face of a collective crisis; of clearly ‘deserving’...
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...
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