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Image shows the early morning sun rising over Roundhay Park in Leeds with people walking in the distance

'Target investment at poorer-quality parks'

Published
22 March 2018
Categories
Society & Politics
Arts & Culture
News

A major report into the future of parks in Leeds has recommended the council gets them all up to Green Flag or equivalent standard, the national benchmark for high-quality recreational open spaces.

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Fake news production and social media 'trolls'

Published
12 February 2018
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Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

A network of digital workers are designing political disinformation campaigns, creating fake news and fanning the flames of public discontent in the Philippines, new research has found.

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Challenges of caring for disabled children

Published
4 December 2017
Categories
Society & Politics

A quarter of parents of disabled children provide 100 hours of care a week – equivalent to three full-time jobs – according to new research.

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Single election broadcast influenced one third of viewers’ votes

Published
4 December 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

The BBC’s Question Time Leaders’ Special may have swung more than a million people’s votes in June’s General Election, according to the first in-depth analysis of its effect on the poll.

Alice Bacon celebrates her General Election victory in Leeds in 1945. Picture: The Yorkshire Post

Event celebrates Yorkshire’s first woman MP

Published
30 November 2017
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Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

The achievements of a pioneering Yorkshire MP are to be commemorated with a public lecture by senior MP Harriet Harman.

same-sex marriage

Number of same-sex church weddings remains very small

Published
27 November 2017
Categories
Society & Politics
Science

The majority of places of worship that permit same-sex marriage only carry out a small number of ceremonies, with roughly half having actually married a gay couple, a new study shows.

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Understanding Sikh activism in Britain

Published
15 November 2017
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Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

Research sparked by media reports citing Sikh “radicalisation” in Britain has found little evidence of the country's Sikhs being radicalised to join international terrorist groups.

Stanley Ellis, Survey of English Dialects fieldworker, with microphone, with 'informant' Tom Mason, near Ilkley in 1967

Updating the most comprehensive dialect survey ever

Published
20 October 2017
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Society & Politics
Arts & Culture

A National Lottery grant is allowing the University to update the most comprehensive survey of the dialects of England ever undertaken.