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This workshop gives students an overview of Criminology, whilst dispelling myths about what people may think it is. It discusses the idea of crime, and what this actually means – before engaging students with prominent psychological, biological, and sociological theories, showing how broad of a field criminology is. The final focus is on prisons and...
This workshop will give students an insight into what is enterprise and how entrepreneurship begins. We will look at diversity within business through an activity and identify entrepreneurial traits / skillsets, answering the question, what makes an entrepreneur, by way of interactive learning using initiative, creativity and teamwork. By the end of the session students...
This workshop will introduce young people to who, how, and why political campaigns are operated. Using past examples of British political campaigns, young people will be given an opportunity to create their own campaign slogans and become aware of how facts and data are used in political campaigns. For more information please email socialscience@leeds.ac.uk. To...
This workshop will help students explore the basics of British politics and democracy: from understanding what a politician does, who the main political parties are and what is a manifesto. For more information please email socialscience@leeds.ac.uk. To complete a booking form, please click here.
“Exploring Inequalities” introduces different aspects of inequality (health, age, race, religion), its relational nature and its cross cutting impact. The workshop uses tools such as a ‘power walk’ to ask students to identify with different perspectives to allow them to understand the effects inequality can have at an individual level. Students then work together, using...
We’ve all bought products and services, we’ve all checked their prices and we’ve all seen the ads. But do we think about why we buy a product for a specific price or how we know about that product? All this has to do with a little something known as Marketing. This workshop aims to introduce...
This workshop gives students an overview of Criminology, whilst dispelling myths about what people may think it is. It discusses the idea of crime, and what this actually means – before engaging students with prominent psychological, biological, and sociological theories, showing how broad of a field criminology is. The final focus is on prisons and...