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Go Fund Yourself? Funding and the Future of High Growth Startups in the Leeds City Region

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Sherif Youssef, Partnerships and Engagement Officer at the Leeds Social Sciences Institute at the University of Leeds is hosting an interactive workshop to gather business leaders and decision makers within the investment landscape in the Leeds City Region.  Highlighting investment and development opportunities the workshop seeks to propose evidence-based solutions to build and scale up...

Internship Vacancies x 3 posts

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Horizons Institute Communications Intern x 1 post This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.  Link to the full advert here. To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please...

LSSI Internal Updates & Opportunities - January 2024

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We produce a monthly internal updates and opportunities bulletin, if you are a University of Leeds student or member of staff,  you can also sign up to our mailing list. Contents of the latest bulletin listed below: LSSI UPDATES & EVENTS Impact Acceleration Account - Joint Showcase Event LSSI project case studies LSSI Next Generation Co-production...

Joint LSSI and RIS Impact Acceleration Account Showcase

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Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) and the Research and Innovation Service team (RIS) welcomed colleagues from across the university to the joint Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Showcase Event.  The event celebrated the many meaningful cross faculty relationships and collaborations between LSSI, RIS and our colleagues at the University of Leeds. As holders of the Impact...

Long Covid patient reported app helps overcome socio-economic barriers

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Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding gave Dr Manoj Sivan the opportunity to overcome socio-economic barriers between medicine and social sciences. He employed a research fellow to help develop a knowledge-sharing app for patients managing long Covid symptoms at home Dr Manoj Sivan, Associate Clinical Professor and Honorary Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine with Leeds Institute for...

Social and cultural causes of maternal mortality in East Africa

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Professor of African History Shane Doyle secured Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding to hold research dissemination workshops in Kenya, exploring social and cultural factors behind the region’s high maternal mortality rates Shane’s research seeks to understand the cultural reasons why women in East Africa are at such high risk of death from maternity causes. ‘In...

Vacancies - 2 x Deputy Directors White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership

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The WRDTP is a partnership of seven universities, which brings together the Universities of Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan, Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield and York to deliver cutting edge social science training to postgraduate researchers. Our training is open to all social science PGRs in the partnership, regardless of funding status. The WRDTP is organised around...

Next Generation Co-production Funding Project

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Supporting Research on Marginalised Futures of Sustainable Cooling Sumedha Basu, from the Sustainability Research Institute in the School of Earth and Environment successfully secured funding from the first round of LSSI Next Generation Co-production Impact Scheme.  This scheme is available to cover the costs of projects using experimental approaches and methodologies for participatory research, the...

LSSI Internal Updates & Opportunities - December 2023

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We produce a monthly internal updates and opportunities bulletin, if you are a University of Leeds student or member of staff,  you can also sign up to our mailing list. Contents of the latest bulletin listed below: LSSI UPDATES & EVENTS Impact Acceleration Account Showcase Event Professor Gehan Selim Celebrates Double Award Success Cheryl Harris LSSI...