Supporting Early Career Researchers
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Social Science and Business: Opportunities for Impact and Career Development
Have you been considering how business engagement can further your research or progress your career? We would really like your feedback on how we can develop this funding to best suit your needs in order to maximise the potential activities for PGR/ECR requirements.
The Power Hour: Collaborating with Business for Social Impact and Research
The session aims to help researchers clearly communicate their existing research to private sector stakeholders; and identify ways to approach and make connections with these stakeholders, as well as create potential collaborations. The training will be delivered by Mihaela Gruia who is a social and data scientist passionate about the intersection between research, communication…
‘Communicating Research Beyond Academia’ Workshop
This is free training, provided by ‘Research Retold’ for the Leeds Social Sciences Institute. Registration is open to researchers (incl. early career) from across the Social Sciences at Leeds. ‘The key to making your research understood is to speak plainly and to adopt a targeted approach to dissemination in short and accessible formats.’ – Mihaela…
Inequalities research lunchtime café
Shahab Adris will launch the Inequalities Research Café with a brief discussion of his work with MEND and issues of understanding how Islamophobia manifests itself in the socioeconomic and political landscape of Britain. About the Research Cafe The Research Café gives people who are conducting research or who work on social inequality the opportunity to ask…
Why work with dads?
Dr. Anna Tarrant (SSP) will begin the seminar by providing an introduction to the practice, policy and research agenda concerned with engaging men who are fathers. Attention to men’s roles in families is only relatively recent on the policy and research agenda. Existing evidence indicates that the value of involved fatherhood is increasingly being recognised, yet…
The challenges of getting published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals in the social sciences
This seminar will provide insights from editors of leading peer reviewed journals in the social sciences about: how to think strategically about your publication outputs; how best to prepare a paper for submission to a journal; the peer review process and what it entails and what to expect; the challenges of open access, inter-disciplinarity and…
LSSI lunchtime conversation: Identifying web-based group decision support system requirements
EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES A project that sought to identify the industrial requirement and potential barriers for developing a web-based group decision support system for use in industry will be the subject of Leeds Social Sciences Institute’s (LSSI) next lunchtime conversation. Using LSSI / RIS seedcorn funding, an interdisciplinary team led by Richard Hodgett…
LSSI lunchtime conversation: Technology and product convergence in health innovation
Professor Krsto Pandza (LUBS) will discuss a research project that gathered empirical evidence on industrial, technological and product convergence in the health sector at a lunchtime conversation hosted by Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI). His work, which received LSSI / RIS seedcorn funding, sought to discover if the architecture of academic research capabilities mirror the…
LSSI lunchtime conversation: Collaborating on new social science dataset techniques
A project that aimed to develop a technique to integrate Dynamic Data Assimilation (DDA) into Spatial Interaction Models (SIMs) will be the subject of Leeds Social Sciences Institute’s (LSSI) next lunchtime conversation. Dr Andrew Evans (Geography) led an interdisciplinary team that used LSSI / RIS seedcorn funding to try and move SIMs into the Big…
LSSI lunchtime conversation: Exploring approaches to urban water infrastructure development
Dr. James Stark (Arts) will discuss his research into the relationship between historical and contemporary approaches to urban water infrastructure development at Leeds Social Sciences Institute’s (LSSI) next lunchtime conversation. His team of interdisciplinary researchers used LSSI / RIS seedcorn funding to examine how an appreciation of historical context can inform decision-making in future infrastructure…
