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• 2019
  • January (5)
    • How the traditional Sunday lunch could help decrease obesity
    • Research should be with rather than on service users
    • Whole systems approaches: what's the evidence in public health?
    • What are the Government doing to tackle obesity?
    • Should obesity be recognised as a disease?
  • February (1)
    • Brexit and the Politics of Aid
  • April (2)
    • Writer in Residence: Jacob Ross
    • Through The Pages: 250 Years Of The Leeds Library with Ruth Robbins
  • May (1)
    • How To Curate A Blog
  • June (1)
    • Understanding the experiences of the women who support local women
  • July (6)
    • Women's football: Look how far we've come
    • From France 2019 to 'Monday night footy'
    • Demanding more from match analysis in the women's game
    • Against the Run of Play: An Investigation into Women Footballers' Negotiation of Gender
    • Thinking sociologically when comparing women's and men's football
    • It’s not about flooding the market but building a pipeline: Improving gender diversity in football coaching workforces
• 2018
  • January (10)
    • Ending weight stigma and discrimination in 2018
    • Swedish death cleaning: how to declutter your home and life
    • Where in the world!
    • The importance of using a whole systems approach to obesity
    • Obesogenic Environments: Does Proximity Matter?
    • Public health policy and campaigns; health promotion, without the stigma
    • Lack of funding for weight management services
    • Importance of healthy nutrition in early childhood obesity prevention
    • Will the lack of diversity in the events industry be addressed in 2018?
    • Poor retention = restless, agitated students: Discuss.
  • February (1)
    • The Loneliness of Young Fathers
  • March (3)
    • Challenging gender inequalities through research
    • In terms of discrimination in football we have a long way to go
    • More needs to change to tackle lack of housing
  • April (3)
    • Technology, society and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
    • The Facebook privacy scandal proves that if it’s free online, you are the product
    • Artificial Intelligence - the verge of a revolution?
  • May (3)
    • The performance of Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and the Royal Wedding
    • ECB Reaching Out to South Asian Communities
    • Social media users freely share personal data but fear highly-regulated Government ‘snooping’
  • June (3)
    • Why Write?
    • Why is the World Cup so hard on the knees?
    • Weight stigma and discrimination: finally at the top table
  • July (9)
    • FiFA World Cup (1) - Wimbledon (Love): Sport fandom in a crowded marketplace
    • Three Lions roar: the mixed fortunes of England’s football anthems
    • Sport may be an opium of the people but it matters
    • Government’s LGBT Action plan
    • The Childhood Obesity Plan: Chapter 2
    • The NHS at 70 Years - Catherine Coates
    • Sue Sherwin - the NHS at 70 Years
    • National Writing Day: celebrating the power and pleasure of writing
    • Breaking the Waves: Practice as Research in the Creative Arts
  • August (3)
    • Windrush Bacchanal: Leeds West Indian Carnival Troupe Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Arrival of Empire Windrush
    • Studying social sciences: the Dean's perspective
    • Arts degrees teach you much more than how to think
  • September (3)
    • Wartime Lessons for Recycle Week
    • There is No Escaping The Body: Bodily Metaphors and Technology
    • Using research and education to respond to England’s shifting health profile
  • October (6)
    • The benefits that trees can bring to our towns and cities: a response to the Budget
    • Review of Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell to Earth
    • Doctor Who aims to destroy from within
    • Monsters of the new millennium
    • Remembrance at Leeds Beckett
    • Living in a frantic world
  • November (2)
    • Dystopia, Apocalypse and Contemporary Women Writing Now
    • Boosting participation in science and engineering
  • December (1)
    • Rising Mental Distress in Young Girls
• 2017
  • January (6)
    • Can research students do participatory research?
    • More than just a feel good factor? The relationships between sport and the arts
    • Trump, inauguration and impeachment
    • ‘Shared society’ and the ‘business case’
    • How can befriending support people with a learning disability take part in leisure activities?
    • New Year, New me
  • February (3)
    • Reputation, reputation I ha’ lost my reputation: Beauty contest or integrity?
    • Learning Together in prison: An innovative approach to education through inclusivity
    • Six ways to stop boys being left behind in the classroom
  • March (5)
    • Social Science and the Emerging Strategies for Industry and Research
    • ‘My tongue is the blast of a gun!’ On the Road with the Midnight Robbers
    • Beyond targets and tick boxes: The challenge is set to create sustainable organisational change to support greater equality
    • Why we need PR
    • Politics and business: who is governing whom?
  • April (1)
    • Football Welcomes Refugees
  • June (6)
    • The contribution of green spaces to health and wellbeing
    • National Writing Day: mapping the region’s stories
    • Protecting parks for public health: why bother?
    • Partnerships in Health and Well-being: A Focus on Leeds
    • Changing role of CSR and Sustainability reporting in Supply Chain Organisations
    • Brexit is an opportunity to revisit strategy for supply chains
  • July (4)
    • Healthy Ageing. Is it all in the legs?
    • Groundbreaking seminar on Care Experienced Young People
    • Celebrating Caribbean Carnival Culture in Leeds
    • How do we make distance learning the best it can be?
  • August (1)
    • Physical inactivity in adults: is it time to move away from shock tactics?
  • September (2)
    • International intelligence exchange
    • Time to stop weight stigma in UK national newspapers
  • October (3)
    • Sustainable regeneration brought to life in Lille
    • Gender, PE and Active Lifestyles
    • Sport Injury: Tackling Life in a Competitive Society
  • November (4)
    • Black Friday - many in, some out
    • Peaky Blinders and Gang Related Histories
    • Rethinking reasons behind lower educational outcomes of looked after children
    • Supporting adults with high-functioning autism through advice, information, and mentoring: a little goes a long way
  • December (7)
    • What impact will Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel have?
    • Five digital trends to look out for in Higher Education in 2018
    • Is the party over? Local events and festivals in times of austerity
    • What makes a terrible video game?
    • Children's mental health a government priority for 2018
    • What the Second World War can teach us about recycling in 2018
    • Carnegie School of Education responds to Government Green Paper on children's mental health
• 2016
  • January (3)
    • Maximising patient and public engagement in healthcare
    • Buck the trend, succeed with your resolutions
    • Testing your new year's resolve after the festivities
  • February (2)
    • "The ripples are big": Storying the impact of doping in sport beyond the sanctioned athlete
    • Learning through visual props
  • March (2)
    • Resistance through ‘Robber Talk’: The Transcultural Carnival Trickster in Trinidad
    • Telling Stories: From Artful Dodgers to The Secret History of My Family
  • April (3)
    • Autism at uni the challenges and routes to success for autistic students
    • Breaking the barriers for autistic students
    • Autism, Systemising and Empathy: Some Inside-out Comments
  • June (2)
    • European Capital of Culture Cultural Engagement Workshop
    • Is leisure the key to making migrants feel at home
  • July (4)
    • The Road to Rio: Some Thoughts on Olympic Politics
    • How Pokémon GO has the potential to benefit your health
    • Landscapes of Loss
    • Mental preparation key to helping the Red Dragon roar
  • August (2)
    • Top tips for clearing
    • Rio Olympics and the power of the volunteer
  • September (7)
    • A legacy for Leeds
    • Bradford home to the new Rugby League museum
    • Martian invasions and other tales: telling stories in museums
    • How Close are Sport and the Arts?
    • Drawing the Arts and Sport Together
    • Is it really grim up north?
    • Tackling discrimination in sport
  • October (6)
    • White Lies About Race and Education
    • Homophobia in sport - a response
    • Civilising the torture and execution trade
    • Social Scientists CAN Change the World
    • Trump, white nativism and economic populism: a new (r)age for western politics
    • Digital Transformation - a sport marketing educator’s perspective
  • November (9)
    • Managing the England Football Team - A Permanently Poisoned Chalice
    • Putting Leeds's goth scene into perspective
    • Fake news
    • Social Media: a new site for racism in football
    • The John Lewis Christmas ad – a different approach for a depressing year?
    • The US election and the New Politics of Inequality
    • Historian explores the life of forgotten British antislavery orator buried in Leeds
    • Celebrating 50 years of Landscape education
    • The importance of online support forums for men experiencing infertility
  • December (4)
    • Governance and Poppies
    • How Last of the Summer Wine has changed memories of Holmfirth
    • “Tis the season to be jolly” – and safe from fires and burns: lessons from history
    • Mission-led business and social responsibility
• 2015
  • January (6)
    • Culinary Master Classes with Yorkshire Carnegie
    • Local authority sport and leisure vital to health of the nation
    • Is it really grim up North?
    • New approaches to promote activity vital in stopping 'inactivity epidemic'
    • Enabling partnerships for change
    • Cognitive bias key to understanding REF results
  • February (3)
    • Devolution of Health and Social Care in Manchester: Revolution or Evolution?
    • In search of rhubarb stories
    • Fifty Shades of the Future
  • March (3)
    • Inactive children to become middle-aged couch potatoes
    • Imagining Yorkshire
    • Mining the Meaning: The 1984-5 Miners’ Strike 30 Years On
  • April (3)
    • Stop me if you've heard this one before: Comics, movies and the 2007-08 credit crunch
    • UN meeting urge to ban killer robots
    • Consumption and Class: The Curious Case of Golf
  • May (2)
    • Governance under questions following FIFA corruption arrests
    • The puzzle of near-death experiences
  • June (4)
    • Tracking tricksters in Washington, DC
    • Generation inactive
    • Moving on seamlessly? The IPCC and Orgreave
    • Dietitians in the media
  • July (2)
    • What is employee engagement and are you emotionally engaged?
    • You are here - 'Leaving the City' walk
  • September (3)
    • The biggest self-inflicted corporate scandal of the 21st century?
    • Crisis? what crisis?
    • Leadership and hope - how can leadership inspire hope?
  • October (9)
    • Assessing the impact of physical activity and food environment on obesity
    • A Caribbean childhood: Sugar Cane Alley comes to Leeds
    • Crunch lit: the future of finance
    • Reflections of a poet: non-racialism versus racial inclusivism
    • Environmental health consultancy service to prepare students for future practice
    • Celebrating world mental health day with dignity in mind
    • Marketing strategy for the year we live in - roadmap or survival kit?
    • Improving health through education
    • Serial winners - Leeds Beckett study gets to the bottom of why some coaches get to the top... and stay there
  • November (4)
    • Learning disabilities work experience week 2015
    • Sport as a space for women
    • More than a chemical imbalance - why depression can't be cured by medication alone
    • Less bad apples but a bad barrel
  • December (2)
    • Autism portrayals: then and now
    • Frozen shoulder in Antarctica? - From telemedicine to telephysiotherapy
• 2014
  • January (4)
    • Can Morrisons Deliver?
    • Cancer Talk Week - Talking about Penile Cancer
    • How to make this year the longest of your life
    • How Neanderthals help to assess our understanding of language and speech
  • March (3)
    • Budget 2014 Reaction: Inequality and the Politics of Budgeting
    • Budget 2014: What can we expect?
    • Children of the Universe - UK looking to avoid 'nul points' as Eurovision singer chosen
  • April (5)
    • Are we still the good guys?
    • Moyes, Mourinho and managerial myth
    • Does what gets measured get done
    • A new kind of drug problem
    • Kim Cascone: Subtle Listening & Dark Stations Concert at Leeds Met
  • June (9)
    • Gender matters? Murray & Mauresmo prepare for Wimbledon defence
    • From protests to England’s early exit, Brazil 2014. Has anyone even mentioned the health legacy of the World Cup?
    • Le Grand Départ: A cycling legacy?
    • Educating Dietetic support workers
    • Dietitians in the Media Spotlight
    • Jury still out on whether Eugene Goostman passed the Turing test
    • Dietitians Week celebrates students' placement experiences
    • Cycling, Bread and Circuses? Le Tour comes to Yorkshire
    • In conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • July (7)
    • Integration of Commonwealth Games key to its success
    • Considering Media and Place
    • Education strategies key as anti-doping testing results rise by 20% in 2013
    • All Those Other Cyclists
    • How will we use media during the Tour de France?
    • Just who is responsible for Suárez?
    • Education key to preventing doping in sport
  • August (4)
    • Exam results day - a day for making choices
    • Keep calm and study on
    • Flying the nest - a new beginning
    • Clearing 2014: Stay calm and make good decisions
  • September (2)
    • Black History Month
    • Europe Made in Africa
  • October (5)
    • Mega-sized sporting events too often fail to deliver health legacy
    • How investment in sport has helped Medellín shake off its violent past
    • Follow the leader?
    • A sense of belonging
    • Five ways to wellbeing
  • November (6)
    • Is Black Friday good for UK retail?
    • Generation Rent its time for action
    • Archivist reflects on campus role in rehabilitating wounded solders during the Great War
    • Caribbean Carnival Culture
    • A Visit to the American Folklore Society
    • Christmas is for Winning
  • December (3)
    • Coaches role crucial in fighting doping
    • English Football is a White Institution
    • Books for prisoners: a step in the right direction
• 2013
  • January (2)
    • Lance Armstrong doping scandal
    • Livestrong or Liestrong
  • April (3)
    • Dealing with the Masters pressure
    • Buyer beware: Supplement false claims and contamination
    • Motivating Polish Matura students to write in English
  • May (2)
    • Following in Sir Alex's footsteps...
    • Arts funding under scrunity
  • June (5)
    • Inspiration Exchange
    • Ex-files, not X-Files
    • Leaders - What are they good for?
    • Mens Health Week 2013
    • 'Embodied Cognition Is Not What You Think It Is'
  • July (3)
    • Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny freed on bail
    • Doping in sport
    • International Opportunities for Students and Staff in Sport, Leisure and PE
  • August (1)
    • Burnout, the new stress?
  • September (7)
    • Celebrating the joy of languages at Leeds Met
    • Coaches cannot survive on reputation alone
    • Is there such a thing as nice abuse?
    • Grand Theft Auto V - Is it Worth the Wait?
    • Education key in changing doping culture in sport
    • A Zero Hour World
    • Exodus from Damascus - Dr Steve Wright
  • October (2)
    • Can Neuroscience Explain Human Experience?
    • British education in crisis
  • November (8)
    • Analysing the role of stress in elite sport
    • Blue sky thinking on Educating Yorkshire
    • Children now slower runners than their parents
    • Leeds Met to launch MSc Advanced Diabetes Educator course - the first of its kind in the UK
    • Education and training for global health workforce planning
    • How can sustainability help tourism businesses?
    • Kenya under anti-doping microscope
    • Arts funding favours London
• 2012
  • October (1)
    • Friends Reunited
  • November (1)
    • 5G technology