Link Seminar - March 2024 A seminar series designed to connect academic knowledge with pressing policy agendas Presented by DWP in collaboration with the Universities of Leeds, Loughborough, Sheffield and York, LINK is a webinar series designed to help build richer connections between the academic, policy and analytical worlds by providing an opportunity to hear from...
Since the onset of COVID-19, recent empirical evidence has revealed substantial funding gaps across various regions within the UK. This, as a result, hindered start-ups from scaling up their operations, created further barriers to entering foreign markets, and contributed to the productivity conundrum facing the UK. This workshop seeks to propose evidence-based solutions to build...
Link Seminar - February 2024 A seminar series designed to connect academic knowledge with pressing policy agendas Presented by DWP in collaboration with the Universities of Leeds, Loughborough, Sheffield and York, LINK is a webinar series designed to help build richer connections between the academic, policy and analytical worlds by providing an opportunity to hear from...
Link Seminar - January 2024 A seminar series designed to connect academic knowledge with pressing policy agendas Presented by DWP in collaboration with the Universities of Leeds, Loughborough, Sheffield and York, LINK is a webinar series designed to help build richer connections between the academic, policy and analytical worlds by providing an opportunity to hear from...
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...