Society & Politics News

People protesting for action on climate change with signs that read 'Our house is on fire', 'There is no planet B' and 'System change not climate change'.

COP27 and research at Leeds

Published
Thursday 10th November, 2022
Categories
Society & Politics
Environment
Science
Global

The 2020s have been described as the critical decade for climate change.

Aerial view of flooded fields and roads

'Government must protect critical services from climate change'

Published
Thursday 27th October, 2022
Categories
Business & Economy
Society & Politics
Environment

A damning report from MPs says the Government needs to do more to protect critical national infrastructure in the UK from being disrupted by extreme weather.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Simone Buitendijk on stage and speaking to the audience with Tracy Brabin and Professor Piers Forster

Getting Yorkshire to net zero

Published
Friday 21st October, 2022
Categories
Society & Politics
Environment
Working with our region

Regional leaders and organisations must work ever more closely to achieve net zero in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Two police officers, back to camera, walk down a crowded high street.

Vulnerability and policing research centre launches

Published
Wednesday 12th October, 2022
Categories
Working with our region
Society & Politics

A ground-breaking new research centre aims to change how the police, public services and local government work together to help vulnerable people.

A couple sit on a sofa looking concerned as they read their bills.

Cost of living crisis highlights racial inequalities

Published
Tuesday 11th October, 2022
Categories
Society & Politics

Black and minority ethnic people are disproportionately falling faster and further below the poverty line amidst the cost of living crisis, according to a new report.

A young woman working as a barista makes coffee.

Rethinking young women's working lives

Published
Thursday 6th October, 2022
Categories
Business and partnerships
Society & Politics

New research will examine how women’s early experiences of employment shape long-term career paths and reinforce inequalities in the labour market.

The lower arms and hands of an adult couple holding hands, both with rainbow coloured friendship bracelets.

Equality marriage bill introduced in Lords

Published
Friday 8th July, 2022
Categories
Society & Politics
Society & Politics

Legal moves to allow same sex marriages in all British Oversea Territories have been introduced in the House of Lords.

Edward Roberts holding a bar of Dairy Milk chocolate with his Platinum Jubilee design on the wrapper

Leeds student’s Jubilee emblem goes global

Published
Monday 30th May, 2022
Categories
Society & Politics
Working with business
Arts & Culture

It's emblazoned across London Buses and embellished on Krispy Kreme donuts; etched onto the Wimbledon Singles Final coin and stitched into socks.