Results 61 to 70 of 115
In partnership with the climate charity Hope for the Future (HFTF), Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Engagement will run an event tailored for young people to harness their campaign skills, by exploring channels, methods and actions for effective campaigning on climate change. This event will target young people from an academy of schools...
This seminar is part of the seminar series of IPEN, a network that brings together practitioners and academics working on public engagement, with a particular focus on parliamentary institutions. In this seminar, two officials from the Parliament of Denmark discuss the Citizens’ Initiatives Scheme, its development, its impact and its legal implications. The Scheme was launched...
This lecture will launch our events series on Designing Democratic Engagement. Michael Saward will speak of his latest book, Democratic Design. Please register through the Eventbrite link. We often think about democracy in terms of different models – representative, deliberative, participative, and so on. But democracy is not exhausted by advocating specific models or set...
We are very pleased to announce a new events series dedicated to Designing for Democratic Engagement. The most important and most urgent questions of today are also questions of democracy. When we think about adaptation to climate change or decolonising institutions there are reasons to think that current forms of liberal representative democracy linked to...
CDE PGR Miranda Duffy will be performing the Den of Enquiry at the National Science and Media Museum’s Science Festival in Bradford this October half term. Join as we ask: is democracy more than just about voting? Ideal for 9+year olds and their adults. The events are free and held at Shine West Bowling on 26th October...
This workshop will focus on a presentation by Paul Geyer on his PhD thesis. The CDE postgraduate workshops are informal gatherings where we discuss issues chosen by our PhD students. This is an opportunity for PhDs to receive feedback and advice on specific issues, methods, concepts they may be working on. The workshops sometimes also...
Are you a citizen from Leeds, Bradford, or Hull? Are you 16 years or older? Do you have some ideas about how your city can make progress with decarbonisation? Would you like to get involved in a constructive and structured deliberation on climate change policies in the North with your fellow citizens, supportive experts, and...
Are you a citizen from Leeds, Bradford, or Hull? Are you 16 years or older? Do you have some ideas about how your city can make progress with decarbonisation? Would you like to get involved in a constructive and structured deliberation on climate change policies in the North with your fellow citizens, supportive experts, and...
This seminar is part of the seminar series of IPEN, a network that brings together practitioners and academics working on public engagement, with a particular focus on parliamentary institutions. The seminar will introduce the upcoming Global Parliamentary Report (scheduled for publication in Autumn 2021.), explain the project, and provide an overview of major findings. The...
Anti-racism campaigner Baroness Doreen Lawrence OBE is to give the latest public lecture in a University of Leeds series honouring Yorkshire’s first female MP and celebrating strong women. Baroness Lawrence will discuss Women in the public eye and her personal journey. The event will be as follows:· Welcome from the University of Leeds, Vice Chancellor Simone...