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Her City - Making Women Visible In The Design Of Open Spaces

Date
, 12:00-14:00

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...

Link Seminar: Geographies of Volunteering and Work - Participation and Gamification

Date
, 13:00 - 14:00

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...

Link Seminar "Small and Medium Size Employers’ Experiences of Hiring and Retaining Disabled Workers"

Date
, 13:00 - 14:00

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...

Link Seminar with DWP: "Work Related Suicide How Does The UK Regulatory Context Measure Up?"

Date
, 13:00-14:00

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...

Link Seminar April 2023: Business and in work benefits with Mickey Conn

Date
, 13:00-14:00

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...

Co-production Network Event & Launch of Co-production Research Toolkit

Date
, 10:00 - 14:00 GMT
Category

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...

Contested Urban Food Landscapes

Date
, 12:00 - 13:00 GMT

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...

Innovation forum - a workshop to explore the theme of place in Leeds

Date
, 12:30 – 16:30 GMT

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...