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Al Garthwaite was one of four people, voted by the public, to be awarded the ‘People’s Degree’. Al is an external member of Leeds Social Sciences Institute. Al has been involved in a number of community projects and helped develop equality policies for Leeds City Council. She has also documented...

A policy workshop was held on 27 November, in London, to discuss the research findings of of Dr Deborah Sporton (University of Sheffield) and Professor Gill Valentine (University of Leeds). Their research study, funded by the ESRC, spanned two years and focused on the lives of young Somalis aged 11-18...

LSSI will host Professor Richard Chalfen, awarded the ESRC/CSRC Collaborative Transatlantic Fellowship ‘Advancing Visual Methodology in Social Science’, during autumn 2007. Richard is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Temple University, Philadelphia and is Senior Scientist in the Centre on Media and Child Health at the Children’s Hospital, Boston/Harvard Medical School,...

Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) is pleased to announce the winning entries to its recent photo competition for staff and students. The theme was equality, diversity and /or security. The overall standard of entries was high and the judges chose images that they felt most captured the complexity of equality,...

Can you capture a picture that portrays aspects of ‘equality, diversity and/or security’? Leeds Social Sciences Institute invites staff and students of the University of Leeds to submit digital images that portray aspects of ‘equality, diversity and/or security’ for use on the LSSI website and other information/publicity material. The Photograph...