Viktoria Spaiser is delighted to have received a three year extension for her UKRI Future Leadership Fellowship, starting in October 2025. Viktoria has exciting plans for her extension, including exploring generative AI Agent Based Models to better understand complex social dynamics that can bring about climate solutions or can reinforce maladaptive responses to escalating climate...
On Thursday 6 February, the Alice Bacon Lecture 2024/5 was delivered by celebrated broadcaster and journalist Naga Munchetty at the University of Leeds. The lecture, which honours the city of Leeds' first woman MP, celebrates the achievements of pioneering women and is jointly organised by the Centre for Democratic Politics and Right Honourable Rachel Reeves...
Celebrate the launch of Deformations of Democracy with the editors (John Schwarzmantel and Helen Beetham), contributors, colleagues and friends of David. This is the first book length response to the work of the late David Beetham, who was a Professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, and in particular his original...
Susan Ann Samuel is attending this year's COP29 as part of the University of Leeds COP29 delegation Susan Ann Samuel will be attending COP28 to conduct research as part of her PhD project, which is closely aligned with Dr Viktoria Spaiser's UKRI FLF award.
Jonathan was dear to his colleagues in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds, where he worked from 2010. He was instrumental in establishing the CDP (then as the Centre for Democratic Engagement) in 2017, and served as its Co-Director until 2022. We are collectively shocked and saddened to...
Climate change is pushing the world towards a series of “tipping points” which will see rapid and irreversible change across the natural and social worlds, say a group of leading experts.
Dr Viktoria Spaiser and her PhD student Susan Ann Samuel are both attending this year's COP28 as part of the University of Leeds COP28 delegation. Dr Viktoria Spaiser will participate at COP28 mainly to promote the Global Tipping Points Report, to which she has contributed significantly and which will be launched on the 6th of...
Dr Viktoria Spaiser will present some of the work she has been doing as part of her UKRI FLF award at the Senedd’s Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure (CCEI) Committee Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) event on the 30th of November 2023. She has been invited along with other researchers and experts to provide insights...
The CDP is delighted to announce that Dr Eike Rinke has joined as our new co-director. Eike will be working alongside Dr Richard Hayton to expand the CDP's efforts to promote research in political engagement and democratic participation. Eike specialises in the empirical and normative study of political communication on both the individual and societal...
Together with officials at the Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru), Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira has co-organised the first ever meeting of the Petitions teams of the four parliaments of the United Kingdom (the Northern Ireland Assembly, Scottish Parliament, UK Parliament and Welsh Parliament) to share and discuss the latest research and practice on petitions to parliament. The...