Society & Politics News

Mother and disabled child

Challenges of caring for disabled children

Published
Monday 4th December, 2017
Categories
Society & Politics

A quarter of parents of disabled children provide 100 hours of care a week – equivalent to three full-time jobs – according to new research.

Polling station sign

Single election broadcast influenced one third of viewers’ votes

Published
Monday 4th December, 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

The BBC’s Question Time Leaders’ Special may have swung more than a million people’s votes in June’s General Election, according to the first in-depth analysis of its effect on the poll.

Alice Bacon celebrates her General Election victory in Leeds in 1945. Picture: The Yorkshire Post

Event celebrates Yorkshire’s first woman MP

Published
Thursday 30th November, 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

The achievements of a pioneering Yorkshire MP are to be commemorated with a public lecture by senior MP Harriet Harman.

same-sex marriage

Number of same-sex church weddings remains very small

Published
Monday 27th November, 2017
Categories
Society & Politics
Science

The majority of places of worship that permit same-sex marriage only carry out a small number of ceremonies, with roughly half having actually married a gay couple, a new study shows.

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Understanding Sikh activism in Britain

Published
Wednesday 15th November, 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

Research sparked by media reports citing Sikh “radicalisation” in Britain has found little evidence of the country's Sikhs being radicalised to join international terrorist groups.

Stanley Ellis, Survey of English Dialects fieldworker, with microphone, with 'informant' Tom Mason, near Ilkley in 1967

Updating the most comprehensive dialect survey ever

Published
Friday 20th October, 2017
Categories
Society & Politics
Arts & Culture

A National Lottery grant is allowing the University to update the most comprehensive survey of the dialects of England ever undertaken.

Picture shows a table with a bread roll and a couiple of joggers running past. It is a street scene

Assessing attitudes to lifestyle data and health research

Published
Friday 15th September, 2017
Categories
Society & Politics
Health

Health researchers have launched a major survey to see if people would be prepared to allow their lifestyle data to be matched against their health records.

Misty morning at Roundhay Park, Leeds

Experts call for a sustainable parks policy

Published
Tuesday 11th July, 2017
Categories
Environment
Society & Politics

Urban parks and green spaces are in danger of falling into neglect unless the Government shows leadership to safeguard their future, a coalition of park professionals and researchers has warned.

Roundhay Park

A rare glimpse of Leeds' parks through time

Published
Monday 24th April, 2017
Categories
Society & Politics
Arts & Culture

A new exhibition and online photographic archive will allow residents of Leeds to get a glimpse of the city's parks and green spaces since the early 1900s.