Building Sustainable Societies

Overview

Building Sustainable Societies is a new, dynamic, interdisciplinary research project within Leeds Social Sciences Institute. The project aims to develop new knowledge, analysis and policy to address the major social and economic challenges facing contemporary societies across the globe.

Leading social scientists at the University of Leeds, including experts from across the Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (ESSL), the Faculty of Medicine and Health, and the Leeds University Business School (LUBS), make up the research teams behind Building Sustainable Societies.

This new hybrid research group came together in 2011, and aims to focus and consolidate their research efforts in order to generate knowledge that makes difference to our 21st century lives in the fields of work, care and security.

British Foreign Policy Event

British Academy sponsored workshop on British foreign policy and the use of force after Iraq.

This one-day workshop will meet to consider the issues, drawing on the evidence of the Iraq Inquiry and the Afghan Experience.

Tuesday 3rd July 2012, Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre, Leeds Business School, University of Leeds.

For more details, and to register for this event.

Work, Care and Global Transitions International Seminar

Due to unforseen circumstances this seminar due to run on the 23rd May has been cancelled. We hope to run a similar event in the New Year please look out for future anouncements.

Work, Care and Global Transitions International Seminar - Retirement Plans, care costs and work-care reconciliation: perspectives from research on older workers in three continents.

WUN Transformative Justice Network’s conference

WUN Transformative Justice Network’s conference on ‘Transforming Post-Conflict Societies: Everyday Violence and Access to Justice’

Tuesday 22nd May 2012, at the British Library, London, United Kingdom.

Further details about the conference.