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Lord Mayor’s Small Charities Event in Leeds📣 📅3 July 2025 🕰️12.30 pm – 3 pm 🏢Civic Hall, Calverley Street Leeds LS1 1UR Join in this celebratory event. Booking is essential. Please book your place by 20 June 2025! For full details👉ow.ly/eVmr50W2o4o

Participating organisations will receive an honorarium of £1,000. Email vcseworkforcestudy@sheffield.ac.uk for more information or reply to this tweet.

We want 6 VCSE organisations (3 in West Yorks and 3 in South Yorks) to partner with us in the study. This is a unique opportunity to learn more about your organisation's support systems, try new approaches, and contribute to a growing body of knowledge in this area (2/3)

Leeds Beckett & Sheffield University are looking for Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise organisations to take part in an exciting new project. It's about improving support for VCSE employees in health & wellbeing-related roles to improve their wellbeing & retain staff (1/3)

Colleagues from CHPR at #LeedsBeckett are guest editors for a special issue on health education relating to women e.g. Educational interventions that are gender specific or educational work that is feminist and/or co-produced. Submissions welcome! emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pape…

Really enjoyed talking to people about ethics in participatory research this morning and hearing other people's experience of the realities of working in this way. The final seminar in the series is on participatory analysis - join us on 29th Nov. lnkd.in/eP5p8uVK

Our second workshop in the Participatory Research series will be on Friday 25th October at 11am. We'll be talking about ethical issues and giving some examples from our research. Workshop 2: Ethical Issues – the reality of doing participatory research. …searchSeminar-251024.eventbrite.co.uk

✍️Don't forget to submit your staff awards nominations before Sunday's deadline! ➡️bit.ly/3ZvJv47 🏅Nominate your research and knowledge exchange stars today! #RKEFest24

The Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University will be sending out our first e-newsletter next month to update people on our research and what we're involved in. If you'd like to be on the mailing list, let us know! community@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Join us to celebrate Professor @MariaJMaynard's inaugural lecture - From the margins to the mainstream: Understanding and addressing ethnic inequalities in #health. 📆Weds 30 October 🕕 18:00 - 19:00 🏢The Rose Bowl 🔗bit.ly/3XtY4mb #LBUresearch #healthinequalities

Join us on 12th October to get hands on in the lab and meet the Biomedical Science tutors #lbu #bebeckett #leedsbeckett

We started our Participatory Research series today - thanks to all who came! The next is on ethical issues of PR in practice - any suggestions on what we should include?There will be plenty of space for discussion - we don't claim to have the answers :-) …searchSeminar-251024.eventbrite.co.uk

Academics from #LeedsBeckett are all set for the Intro to Participatory Research workshop this Fri. The link to attend has been sent out today in the Eventbrite reminder (scroll to the bottom 🙂). There's been a great response so we look forward to seeing you there! #CBPR

📢 We are thrilled to announce bookings are now open to all LBU colleagues for our Festival of Research and Knowledge Exchange #RKEFest24! 🎫 bit.ly/3zmZg2C 📆Tuesday 12 - Wednesday 13 November 🏛️Headingley Campus #LBUResearch

Do you want a gentle introduction to Participatory Research with real-life examples of how it works in practice? Join academics from the Centre for Health Promotion Research at a free online seminar on Fri 27th Sept 11.00 -12.30 @BeckettResearch @LBU_RaE …searchSeminar-270924.eventbrite.co.uk

Great presentations this afternoon at the School of Health Postgrad symposium - we should mix quant lab studies and qualitative community research more often! #LeedsBeckett

So much interesting research going on in the School of Health at #LeedsBeckett from the lab to the community. Students are sharing their work at the Postgraduate Symposium today. We have posters, talks and 3 minute thesis presentations #PhD #Research

Our new #WomanOfTheNorth report lays bare the unequal challenges faced by women living in the North of England - who live shorter lives, work more hours for less pay and are more likely to be an unpaid carer than women in other regions of England 1/13 healthequitynorth.co.uk/vast-inequalit…