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...
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...
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...
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...
Celebrating the many meaningful cross faculty relationships and collaborations between LSSI, RIS and our colleagues at the University of Leeds 22 January 2024 | 10:00 - 14:00 | NEXUS Discussing some of the projects that were supported by IAA funding will be: Dr Neil Crawford - Visualising the Urban Climate Crisis Dr Jessica Mitchell and...
Dr Ana Manzano, Associate Professor in Public Policy in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, will work in the Northern Ireland Executive’s Department for the Economy for 18 months on the ‘Evaluating Innovation’ Policy Research Fellowship. A leading academic authority on the relationship between evaluation theory, methods and evidence, she will support the Department’s...
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 University of Leeds welcomes the recommissioning of the new ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership...
There are up to 7 WRDTP ESRC Collaborative Awards available - the deadline for submitting academic project proposals is 12 noon 5 January 2024 If you were unable to attend the online information session for guidance on the process on 24 October 2023, if you follow this link there is an option to select to receive...
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...