Beyond the Gaze: The working practices, regulation and safety of Internet-based sex work in the UK is a three year research project in the School of Sociology and Social Policy. The project is led by Professor Teela Sanders, with Jane Scoular and Rosie Campbell.
A new bilingual (English and German) site has been launched for the research project Realist Evaluation of Adapted Sex Offender Treatment: Programs for Men with Intellectual Disability directed by Dr Andrea Hollomotz in the School of Sociology and Social Policy.
A new centre has been launched in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies - the first of its kind, both nationally and internationally, with a specific focus on the study of the history of the trade in both art and antiques.
The 2017 Annual MeCCSA Conference will be held from 11-13 January 2017 in Leeds, hosted by the School of Media and Communication.
A new research project headed by Professor Mark Pike in the School of Education launched its project website this week.
This site was launched prior to The state of the art of realist methodologies: a two day conference, held in November 2015 at the Leeds Club, which brought together internationally recognised scholars from a wide range of disciplines to debate and advance realist methodologies and celebrate the innovative and ground-breaking work of emeritus Professor Ray Pawson.
Istanbul in/+ Leeds is an extension of the 14th Istanbul Biennial, which runs from September – November 2015. Griselda Pollock is part of a small group of alliances (artists, curators and thinkers) assisting Carolyn Christov Bakargiev who is “drafting” the 14th Istanbul Biennial.
A new website for a research project in the School of Music, headed up by Dr Alinka Greasley, was launched this week at musicandhearingaids.org/. The project will represent the first large-scale, systematic investigation of how music listening is affected by hearing aid technology.
A new site to disseminate the findings of an AHRC funded research project (through its connected communities funding programme) has been launched this week by Helen Graham in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies and Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage.
Visit the site at heritagedecisions.leeds.ac.uk
A new site for the research project/network South-North Dialogues on Children of Migrants (SOUNDS) has just been launched. The project is currently run by Rosa Mas Giralt, with two colleagues in the School of Geography Dr Robert Vanderbeck and Dr Louise Waite.
Visit the SOUNDS website here: sounds.leeds.ac.uk