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...
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...
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...
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...
A Festival of Social Science Event What’s on offer? The University of Leeds are running 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...
We are delighted to invite you this seminar in collaboration with UCAD. We welcome Professor Peter Matthews and Dr Lee Gregory who will share their research on this hugely important topic, which we hope will be of interest to colleagues across the department. Title: Access to social security benefits and experiences of the welfare system...
In the first seminar of the 23/24 Link Seminar series, we are delighted to welcome Professor Sarah Mills from Loughborough University. Title: Geographies of Volunteering and Work: Participation and Gamification Abstract: This talk provides an overview of recent research on the boundaries between volunteering and work, including youth work contexts. It then focuses on current debates and...
In this Link Seminar, Dr Cara Molyneux (University of Leeds) will be presenting on: "Small and Medium Size Employers’ Experiences of Hiring and Retaining Disabled Workers". Abstract: Information, support and guidance for employers on issues such as developing an inclusive workplace culture, operationalising reasonable adjustments, encouraging early disability disclosure, responding to individual employee’s accessibility requirements and...
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...