Results 31 to 40 of 176
Xingjie Wei (PI) and Andrea Taylor (Co-I) will lead an ESRC-funded project 'Climate change, social inequality & psychosocial wellbeing with emerging digital data - a multidisciplinary network between UK and South Korea' with Co-Is Jooyoung Jeon, Hyungjun Kim and Jiho Cha from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in the South Korea. Based...
Gulbanu Kaptan contributed to and externally reviewed the UK Parliament Post Note (Briefing for MP's) on genome-edited crops and key issues for public acceptance and trust. Genome editing creates the possibility of making more precise alterations in the DNA of food crop plants than existing approaches. This POSTnote: describes genome editing technology; identifies which food...
Food insecurity among adults age 65 and older is a growing public policy concern in European countries, but the extent of the problem and the related financial stressors are unclear. The purpose of this paper is to measure the percent of food insecure individuals in a targeted sample of financially fragile older adults, and to...
Abstract We investigate if general economic conditions influence aviation safety across the whole sector. Specifically, the study explores the relationship among aviation accidents and incidents for Part 121 US commercial airlines with fuel prices, stock market volatility, industrial production growth, and treasury bill rates. Our findings suggest that most of the variables under consideration exhibit...
The 3 year £1.2million EPSRC funded Flexichem project started on 4th January 2022. The project can be summarised by the image below. Dr. Richard Hodgett will be leading work package 1 that is starting on the 1st February when Dr. David Palma Araneda joins the project team and LUBS. Richard and David will develop a...
Xingjie Wei has received funding from the LUBS Challenge Fund which aims to seed new and innovative grant proposals. Her project is entitled "Predicting inequality from digital textual data ". Predicting economic, social, and health outcomes is critical for informing and evaluating policies aimed at reducing inequality, but it also presents significant challenges because data...
Joshua Weller has received funding from the LUBS Challenge Fund which aims to seed new and innovative grant proposals. His project is entitled "Understanding the relationship between regional gambling behaviour and regional differences in personality". Worldwide, gambling is a popular activity in which individuals engage in multiple ways, including lottery participation, casino and slots gaming,...
In partnership with the British Plant Breeding Society, PI Gulbanu Kaptan and CoIs Edgar Meyer and Joshua Weller (Leeds University Business School), and Huw Jones (Aberystwyth University) will be working with citizens to improve public’s knowledge on plant breeding and novel breeding methods, and understand the needs regarding a transparent food system that involves the...
Peter Ayton's paper ‘Persistence is futile: Chasing of past performance in repeated investment choices’ has been mentioned in Investment Week. You can link to the article here: https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/news-analysis/4040039/university-leeds-calls-investment-disclaimer-reform and to the paper here: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/172480/
Despite the benefits of the internet and other digital technology, the online world has been associated with a negative impact on university student wellbeing. Many university students report symptoms of pathological internet use. Internationally, further research is needed to understand what student users of technology perceive to be problematic internet and/or digital use. The current...