We’re delighted to announce that Professor Simon Lightfoot has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to social sciences.

Fighting drought and combating desertification are climate obligations.

Social tipping points, moments when shifts in behavior, norms, policies, technologies, or institutions become self-reinforcing, are attracting growing attention in sustainability science. Positive tip...

Sarvodaya, the classic Indian concept of welfare—reimagines global environmental politics by drawing a sociopolitical-legal nexus for justice and normativity. This article traces how Sarvodaya, und...

What started as a humorous tweet inspired a movement to force political change in India.

In this episode, we welcome Dr Madeleine Le Bourdon, Associate Professor in Political Pedagogy at the University of Leeds, who reflects on positionality and reflexivity in research, and on discomfort ...

This workshop will foster critical discussions around the environmental politics of war and conflict.

Annabelle Dawson reports on a University of Leeds workshop exploring how social and environmental perspectives can shape water quality research.

How might effective governance of solar radiation modification research be established, as interest grows in outdoor research experiments?

This open access book showcases current debates in the field of global education and learning and the importance of the Declaration on Global Education to 2050. It features chapters from academics, re...

Five projects led by researchers from the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) have been awarded Faculty funding.

Professor Alex Beresford and Dr Ruth Bookbinder have been awarded the Priestley Centre Prize for Collaboration in recognition of their pioneering work on just energy transitions in South Africa.

METHPOL ANALYSES THE POLITICS OF METHANE EMISSIONS, POLICIES, AND IMPLEMENTATION. Following a broadly political ecology approach, our research examines what makes methane politics different, why progr...

The day's local and national news, as well as great music and quizzes with Toby.

Corruption studies tend to focus on developing countries even though corruption is a global system. Marx concluded that corruption, violence, slavery – in short, force – is the primitive or primary fo...

Cambridge Core - Africa - Volume 94 - Issue 5

Tony Livesey with late night conversation and in-depth interviews.

The US is pursuing a strategy of straining the Cuban regime internally, while constructing legal and political justifications for escalation.

At a time when AI increasingly shapes how knowledge is organised, analysed, and acted upon, a University of Leeds resource offers the nuance, contradiction, and lived complexity of human existence.

In Femi Kayode’s thriller Lightseekers (2021) the protagonist Philip Taiwo investigates the brutal murder of three students in the fictional university town of Okriki in the Niger Delta. Woven into th...

In our Research Interview Series we hear from researchers across the School of Politics and International Studies making an impact in the field through their areas of expertise.

More than 200 people gathered for The People’s Emergency Briefing screening and panel discussion in York.

In an increasingly aggressive international political environment, solar geoengineering needs to be reconceptualized – not only as a response to climate change, but as an instrument of power. This con...

Doing world politics and social media: Digital practice and open education in international relations

Leeds alumnus, Bikrama Keshari Mohaptra is a 2026 India‑UK Achievers Honours finalist, recognising his lifelong commitment to disability inclusion and global impact.

Subjects within the Faculties of Environment and Social Sciences have ranked highly in the global top 200.

The war in Iran has exposed fundamental problems within the nuclear ‘non-proliferation’ project.

On Thursday 12 March, the 2026 Alice Bacon Lecture was delivered by celebrated trade unionist Frances O’Grady, former General Secretary of the TUC and currently a Labour peer in the House of Lords.

The CGSC is pleased to invite panel and paper submissions for their

We’re delighted to announce that Professor Cristina G. Stefan has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to social sciences.