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Dr Nicole Nisbett and Dr Viktoria Spaiser from POLIS have had their article – “Moral power of youth activists – Transforming international climate Politics?” – published in the Global Environmental Change journal on 06 July 2023. For more details and the link to read the open access article, please click here.
Postgraduate student Emma Brewis was recently selected for an internship to build the new global Public Engagement Hub, a partnership with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the International Parliament Engagement Network. The International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN) was set up in 2020 as a collaboration between the Centre for Democratic Politics at the University of Leeds...
New research by Associate Professor of Politics, Dr Jonathan Dean, exploring what he calls “the cultural grammar of popular left politics”, has been published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Dr Dean’s article, ‘Purging the neoliberal poison? Marina Diamandis and the cultural grammar of popular left politics’, examines the intersections of left politics and popular culture, by...
The Centre for Democratic Politics is pleased to announce that its member Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira has secured a grant from Research England to explore perceptions and barriers to political engagement amongst seldom-heard communities. This project is co-designed with parliamentary officials from the UK and Welsh parliaments to identify how citizens from seldom-heard groups perceive political...
On Thursday 27th October, the Alice Bacon Lecture 2022 was delivered by Dame Professor Mary Beard at the University of Leeds. The celebrated professor of Classics is the fourth person to have given the Alice Bacon Lecture since the inaugural lecture in 2018, following Harriet Harman MP, Baroness Hale of Richmond, and Baroness Doreen Lawrence....
Dr Viktoria Spaiser and Dr Cristina Leston Bandeira have contributed to a report published by the House of Lords, Environment and Climate Change Committee. Dr Spaiser and Dr Leston Bandeira, who submitted written evidence for the committee’s inquiry, had their evidence cited twelve times in this report. Their recommendations are also to be found within the report. Please...
Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Politics, Dr Richard Hayton, was the special guest on the podcast The Bunker broadcast on 4 October, discussing Kwasi Kwarteng's recent mini-budget, Conservative Party conference and the future of the new government led by Liz Truss. You can find it here, or listen on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Google podcasts, or find...
Dr Viktoria Spaiser, Dr Nicole Nisbett and Dr Cristina G. Stefan from POLIS have had their article – ““How dare you?”—The normative challenge posed by Fridays for Future” – published in the PLOS Climate journal on 3rd October 2022. For more details and the link to read the open access article, please click here.
Positive social transformation can start with challenging the normalisation of thinking and practices that keep us trapped within the Climate Crisis. See the new paper in PLOS Climate: “How dare you?”—The normative challenge posed by Fridays For Future
POLIS Associate Professor, Dr Viktoria Spaiser, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Nicole Nisbett, have recently appeared on Ilkley Literature Festival’s podcast, Settee Seminars. Dr Spaiser and Dr Nisbett speak about the significance of social dynamics in seeking solutions to the global climate crisis in their episode of Settee Seminars, “Stablising Earth’s Climate: Key Social Dynamics”. Theirs...