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Trigger warning: There will be mention of suicide in this seminar. For more detail on the content of the seminar, please see the abstract below. Abstract: This seminar will examine how work-related suicides are monitored, investigated and regulated in the UK, examining a selection of cases and drawing on international comparison with other countries. Effective data...
Abstract Many countries provide in-work benefits: payments or reductions in tax liabilities for which a qualifying criterion is being in current employment. They have a long history, and have traditionally been used in order to boost incomes in response to external shocks, such as rapid increases in the cost of living, or individual “risks” that...
We are delighted to invite research colleagues from the University of Leeds to our Co-production Network Event and launch of the Co-production Research Toolkit - watch the trailer now. This workshop will draw from experiences, developments, and lessons of research co-production across the social sciences in different sectors and areas of policy, service delivery...
Would you like to learn more about commercialisation in the social sciences? Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) is holding a workshop series to explore commercialisation in Social Sciences funded by ESRC. While commercialisation routes for STEM research are well established, the benefits of research commercialisation in the social sciences are less well known. Commercialisation in social sciences isn't only...
You are kindly invited to the upcoming (hybrid) research seminar to present early findings on our work bringing together academic debates on food and urban justice (see below more details on the topic). This work is a collaboration between the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (IIGG) at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Leeds...
The University of Leeds and Leeds City Council are collaborating to bring research expertise together with the real-world issues facing the city. These collaborations have so far taken different forms, from evaluating policy, designing interventions, to co-creating research between academics and partner organisations or individual citizens. Refreshments and a buffet lunch will be available from...
Are you a University of Leeds researcher looking to develop interdisciplinary research collaborations between the social sciences and data sciences, but don’t know where to begin? Then join us for this ‘Breaking Barriers: Social and Data Sciences' Workshop. This event will bring those in data and social sciences together to gain a new appreciation of...
The Department for Transport and the Leeds Social Sciences Institute have launched the new Linking Leeds with DfT Webinar series Why you don’t want to miss this talk As the climate crisis looms largely behind the cost of living crisis,there is a need to take a people-centred approach to ensure a just transition. Our guest...
Lucie Middlemiss, Carolyn Snell, Emily Morrison, Yekaterina Chzhen, Tania Carregha, Samanthi Theminimulle, Anne Owen, Gill Main, Kelli Kennedy The climate crisis looms large behind the cost of living crisis, as a further threat to the wellbeing and good health of humanity. The policy area addressing the climate crisis in the UK, ‘Net Zero’, will impact...