The University of Leeds has partnered with Leeds City Council to develop a series of Areas of Research Interest, identifying the Council’s knowledge needs in the areas of culture, digital, food and inclusive growth. This is helping researchers to direct their research expertise towards addressing critical policy knowledge needs, and…

Welcome to our first signpost of 2023! Whether you’re a policy professional looking to collaborate with researchers, or a researcher looking to engage with policy, you’ll find examples of current and recent collaborations from across the University of Leeds here. Collaboration with Leeds City Council The University of Leeds has…

Welcome to our monthly Signpost — pulling together some of the policy-focussed research across the University of Leeds. Cost of living — focus on poverty Over the past month, there has been a significant body of work shared by University of Leeds researchers around the cost of living. Work done by the Consumer Data Research Centre at…

Welcome to our monthly Signpost — pulling together some of the policy-focussed research across the University of Leeds. COP27 Climate Conference From this Sunday (6 November) world leaders will again be meeting to discuss climate change at COP27. Contributing to the discussion in the inaugural Food Pavilion in Sharm El-Sheikh…

This month’s round up covers the University of Leeds’s involvement in COP28, new research on Early Childhood Education and Care, sign up for Cuckooing prevention conference, launch of Fair Energy Futures, work around transforming food systems, plus other news and publications. University of Leeds at COP28 The UN climate conference, COP28, got underway in Dubai…

A panel of experts met to discuss routes for research to lead to better patient outcomes, and the need to establish a long term national cancer strategy. On the 21 September the Leeds Cancer Research Centre and Policy Leeds hosted a panel discussion to consider how research can inform better…

Whether you want to engage with policy professionals or are thinking of joining them, understanding what a career in policy is like can only be a good thing. Here are six lessons Dr Owen Jackson, Cancer Research UK, shared based on over a decade working in policy, speaking at an…

Our round up this month covers our new policy-relevant projects, Leeds at COP28, upcoming events, publications, and more. Raft of new policy relevant projects for 2023–24 The University of Leeds will be supporting a new raft of policy-relevant projects in 2023–24, funded by the Research England policy support fund. These include projects on: Regenerative agriculture: evidence base for…

Welcome to our October signpost blog, providing a roundup of policy relevant research, news and activity from across the University of Leeds. This month we cover upcoming webinars, the launch of reports into health inequalities and education, visits from Ministers, as well as policy relevant publications and blogs across health…