Celebrated broadcaster and journalist Naga Munchetty is to give the 2024/5 Alice Bacon Lecture at the University of Leeds on Thursday 6th February 2025. The lecture will take place at 18:30 – 19:30 in the Great Hall at the University of Leeds. Doors will open at 18:00. After the lecture there will be a drinks reception. This is...
In this seminar, titled ‘Narratives about democracy: the use of parliamentary storytelling in Brazil and in the UK’, Cláudia Lemos, a Visiting Scholar from the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, will examine the type of language used by communication teams of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and of the UK House of Commons. Her presentation will...
This is a stakeholder event, open to researchers, journalists, activists, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, campaigners, artists etc. who are working on climate change and the ecological crisis. The goal of this event is to come together, exchange insights from research and practice, share stories and ideas, and collaboratively explore pathways of social change in response...
In this research retreat with selected participants we will explore to what extent and how generative AI (and Large Language Models in particular) can be used, for instance in combination with other methods such as Agent Based Modelling, to study complex social and socio-ecological dynamics that we cannot easily study through large-scale field experiments, but,...