Horizons Institute events

This page lists events hosted by the Horizons Institute and members of the research community. All events are open to anyone with an interest in the subject area.

Healthy Buildings Network seminar

Wednesday 30 April, 1 – 2pm, Clarendon Building SR1.01 and online.

Join the Healthy Buildings Network with special guest speaker Louis Platman to explore ‘How to Build a Home: Explorations of Domestic Environments at the Museum of the Home’.

Louis will give a 40-minute presentation exploring the history of the Museum of the Home in Hoxton, the recent redevelopment of its period room displays, and the ways in which the Museum’s collections can help open up debates around the impact of the environment on our homes and on our lives within them.

Louis recently led the redevelopment of the museum’s Rooms Through Time gallery, which now features seven new co-curated period rooms that celebrate the diversity of the communities who have called London home over the past 150 years. As Curator and Research Manager, Louis also oversees the Museum’s research scheme, supporting ten collaborative AHRC-funded PhD studentships investigating home and domestic history from multiple angles and disciplines.

To attend in person, please book your place at the Healthy Buildings Network seminar (MS Form).

To attend online, please email the Healthy Buildings Network via healthy_buildings_network@leeds.ac.uk 

Methods in Magnetism

Friday 2 May, 10am – 12.30pm, Esther Simpson Building 2.10.

Join the MagInBio Network for a workshop session focussed on methods related to magnetism and their applications across disciplines.

The session will include presentations from those working in the field and a chance to find out more about the techniques, the equipment and the application of methods in magnetism.

There will also be a chance to network and participate in interdisciplinary methods conversations facilitated by the Horizons institute.

The event is free to attend and there are 25 places available. Morning refreshments will be provided.

Remaking Places: Rethinking Society and Nature sandpit

Tuesday 6 May, 1 – 3pm, Blenheim Terrace.

The Remaking Places Team invites you to an exciting programme of research events to explore cutting edge issues related to Place and Place-making. These gatherings will be opportunities to share ideas, encounter new ways of approaching interdisciplinary topics and make connections. 

This event is hosted by Dr Katy Wright and focuses on reimagining the conceptual language we use to talk about humans/society and nature.

Polycrisis Network Seminar Series: The polycrisis and social democracy

Friday 9 May, 12 – 1pm, Baines Wing SR (1.06) and online.

Are current political, economic and social disorders overlapping and combining to create a distinct and unprecedented period of polycrisis?

In this seminar, Dr Colm Murphy, a lecturer in British Politics at Queen Mary University London, will use historiography to explore the current social, political and economic landscape and examine whether it could be considered more severe and consequential than any other set of crises in recent history. He will also share insights as to what is distinct about the polycrisis framework, and will look at how the concept of polycrisis risks disabling the agency of social democrats to respond to the challenges they confront, while presenting possible routes out of this trap.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

Remaking Places: Displacement & Movement Discussion

Tuesday 13 May, 1 – 3pm, Blenheim Terrace.

Join the Remaking Places team for a guided discussion led by Dr James Souter to explore the lived-experience of displacement in urban environments.

This is part of a series of gatherings that will be opportunities to share ideas, encounter new ways of approaching interdisciplinary topics and make connections. 

Remaking Places: Sustaining Community Cultural Practices Discussion

Tuesday 20 May, 1 – 3pm, Blenheim Terrace.

Join Dr Alex De Little for a conversation on Culture and Place, exploring the role of community cultural practitioners as researchers and how cultural co-production fosters reflexive, place-based practices.

This is part of a series of gatherings that will be opportunities to share ideas, encounter new ways of approaching interdisciplinary topics and make connections.

Insight Series: Authoring as a collective

Wednesday 21 May, 12 to 1pm, Online (Teams)

Join the members of the team behind Changing the Story as they share their insights from co-authoring their book, Youth Voice and Participatory Arts in Global Development. In this session, co-hosted by the Research Culture team, they will explore what they learnt from the process of authoring as a collective, and how they approached the challenges of working in this way.

Remaking Places: Doughnut Economics Sandpit

Tuesday 3 June, 1 – 3pm, Blenheim Terrace

Calling all researchers interested in Doughnut Economics! Come and engage with the Leeds Doughnut Coalition and explore exciting collaborative opportunities to help make Leeds a city where people and planet thrive.

This is part of a series of gatherings that will be opportunities to share ideas, encounter new ways of approaching interdisciplinary topics and make connections.

Remaking Places: Alco-tourism Sandpit

Tuesday 10 June, 1 – 3pm, Blenheim Terrace

With questions proposed by Dr Anna Douglas, this event examines the impact of party tourism, crowd behaviour and nighttime economies on neighbourhoods.

This is part of a series of gatherings that will be opportunities to share ideas, encounter new ways of approaching interdisciplinary topics and make connections.

UKIEG Conference

Thursday 19 June, 9am to 5.30pm, Maurice Keyworth Building G.02

The Healthy Buildings Network will be hosting this year’s UKIEG conference on the University of Leeds campus. 

This event will spotlight cutting edge studies, case examples and forward thinking solutions that address pressing public health and environmental challenges in buildings. It will also provide opportunities to network with experts across disciplines and to explore how we can champion wellbeing in the built environment.

Submission for abstracts is open until 14 April 2025. Authors will be notified of acceptance by the beginning of May 2025. 

MagInBio Conference

Tuesday 1 July to Wednesday 2 July, 9am to 5pm, Nexus Building and online

The MagInBio conference will bring researchers from across the UK and beyond together to discuss diverse projects and ideas connected to Magnetism in Biomaterials, with facilitated collaboration events to prompt new discussions and help attendees target appropriate funding.

Join us at the University of Leeds for a unique opportunity to showcase your research to a diverse and engaged audience, with the chance to develop new collaborations and projects.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Prof Valerie Voon. Cambridge department of Psychiatry.
• Prof Neil Telling. Keele University Biomedical Nanophysics.

We are inviting abstract submissions for poster presentations: Submit an abstract for the MagInBio Conference (MS Forms).