Beckett Talks

Dr Louisa Ashley, Head of Subject at Leeds Law School, is in conversation with four of her colleagues to find out more about their research. Join them as they discuss perspectives on vulnerability and sexual assault, therapeutic jurisprudence and problem solving courts, show trials and fishing.

In a country where opportunity is so tied to education, girls are frequently left behind due to their cultural and economic circumstances. Senior Lecturer at the Carnegie School of Sport, Dr Lisa O’Keeffe explains how sports programmes are providing new growth and leadership opportunities for young women in Kenya to discover and use their potential.

You've been given one life and one body, why would you ever let the anti-aging industry dictate how you feel about it?" Professsor Jayne Raisborough of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities shares her research on the role of imagination in breaking free from harmful stereotypes, ageism and body shaming.

How do we build trust in the era of fake news? Professor Ralph Tench from Leeds Business School shares his research-based thinking on the importance of listening and how organisations can communicate more effectively in a society where trust in our media and institutions has been so undermined. Ralph also touches on how the inter-generational communication gap has been closing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

What has Virginia Woolf got to tell us about the way we live (and love) now? In this conversation Professor Ruth Robbins and Professor Susan Watkins discuss Woolf’s own life and loves, and think about the ways in which she rewrote history to rewrite the codes of desire in her novel Orlando.

In the final episode of this mini-series the panel examine how we can see positive personal and wider changes via writing as, hopefully, the pandemic eases or we emerge from it.

This is the third in our podcast series on Covid-19 and Culture. Today we examine how Covid 19 and lockdown have made stigma and social inequality worse, but also how we can see resistance and challenge to that in the culture around us.

This is the second in our podcast series on COVID-19 and Culture. In this episode we look at a few examples of how our lives and our engagement with culture have changed because of COVID-19. Professor Susan Watkins discusses the topic with other members of the Leeds Beckett Centre for Culture and the Arts.

This is the first in our podcast series on COVID-19 and Culture and today we are exploring what we can learn from history about coping with pandemic and lockdown. Professor Susan Watkins discusses the topic with other members of the Leeds Beckett Centre for Culture and the Arts.

Professor McKenna from Leeds Beckett's Carnegie School of Sport, shares his research on the factors that increase activity in individuals and communities.