Previous recipients of the award include broadcaster Melvyn Bragg and physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili.

Simon Kirchin on free speech, comedy, and publicly engaged philosophy

Content warning: This episode contains frank discussion of death and of various forms of body disposal, which some might find distressing.Sarah Carter-Walshaw, Lecturer in Applied and Inter-Disciplina...

In this episode, we’re looking at the ethics of long COVID and the ways it is reshaping how we think about disability, care, and community. Long COVID has left millions of people living with chronic s...

Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) and Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge) Today is the 172nd anniversary of an extraordinary woman: Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), who was born as Sarah Phoebe Mar…

YouTube video by The British Academy

On 18 March 2026, Adelene Buckland (Kings College London) will give a talk in the Centre for HPS at Leeds titled, “Artificial Mothers: Technoscientific Utopias in the 1830s and beyond.” The talk wi…

This year's prestigious Haldane lecture (click) will be delivered by Greg Radick. The JBS Haldane Lecture recognises an individual for outstanding ability to communicate topical subjects in genetics research, widely interpreted, to an interested lay audience.  This speaker will have a flair for conveying the relevance and excitement of recent advances in genetics in an informative and engaging way.  The annual open lecture will be delivered on a topic, and in a place, agreed with the Genetics Society.  In addition to delivering the Lecture, the recipient will receive an honorarium of £1000 and a three-year membership of the Society.

*CONTENT WARNING: This podcast contains some frank discussion of sex and sex work.*While there are all kinds of sex work, by far the most common scenario involves a man paying a woman for sex. It is, ...

Is Sex Work Inherently Gendered?

The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities, which is supported by UK Research Innovation (UKRI), will create opportunities for humanities researchers.

The Sapling Fund is designed to support the development of interdisciplinary research and impact projects rooted in the arts and humanities

Online services that promise to find people romantic matches have been likened to gambling products designed to keep customers hooked

Online services that promise to find people romantic matches have been likened to gambling products designed to keep customers hooked

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School of PRHS PGR, Stefan Bernhardt-Radu, is one of only two recipients of new Freer Prize Fellowship for his research on 20th-century history about developmental genetics.

Science and Religion from the Ground Up   What did fourteen-year old physician’s daughter Ellen Parry think about science and religion as Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837?  What was she rea...

The Centre for Religion and Public Life is happy to announce the publication of Activism, Bible, and Research-Based Teaching: Practical Approaches for the Global Biblical Studies Classroom