That’s a wrap on our first LBU Policy Week! Thank you to our fantastic The Knowledge Exchange (TKE) at Leeds Beckett team for organising and to all of our wonderful speakers and guests this week.
It has been hugely inspiring and informative and we hope you have enjoyed the sessions and blogs. #LBUPolicyWeek24

Thank you so much for having Sharon and I. Despite how I look in the picture I really enjoyed the session and the questions that followed.

Thank you to Mark Casci and Sharon Kaur Jandu for sharing the value in joining the dots between academics and the business community. #LBUPolicyWeek24
It is important to engage business communities to influence policy, promote inclusivity, and get the right people around the table.

In the last of our #LBUPolicyWeek24 blog series, Rachel Julian looks ahead to sharing her #peacekeeping research with the UN in New York next month.

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Rachel will be sharing the voices of communities affected by #conflict direct with policymakers.

Wonderful to see #LBUPolicyWeek24 featured in this week’s Yorkshire Universities digest!

Want to learn more about how Symplectic Elements supports #REF2029 ? You can find out more here: symplectic.co.uk/research-excel…

This afternoon, Juliet Harrison and Ellen Pearce Policy Press are sharing their tips around publishing your research - and how publishers can boost your policy engagement and influence through policy briefings, the media, blogs and case studies.

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In today’s #LBUPolicyWeek24 , Dr Ollie Jones @leedsbizschool shares how researchers + policymakers can work together for real impact.

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Ollie leads the Business Productivity Service with Exemplas, boosting #SMEs in #Yorkshire and informing future policy.

Great work being done here by colleagues Leeds Law School bravo Dr. Rachel Dunn

A Leeds Beckett academic is to receive an honorary doctorate for her commitment to Arctic education research. Professor Mhairi Beaton Professor Mhairi Beaton, from Carnegie Education, is being awarded the title Honorary Doctor of Education by University of Lapland.

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Many thanks to The Knowledge Exchange (TKE) at Leeds Beckett for kind invite to discuss regional academic policy engagement! So much good work at Leeds Beckett & #lbupolicyweek is a great idea!

'It's not a nice to have - it's essential' - Policy makers want credible evidence, says Dr Fiona Bolam as part of our #LBUPolicyWeek24 panel session with Jo Barham West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Paul Hayes
Policy makers need universities' evidence, expertise, innovation and partnerships.

In today’s #LBUPolicyWeek24 blog post, Nathan Archer shares insights into his extensive experience of influencing education policy.

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Nathan advocates for increased funding for #earlyyears settings and the creation of an early years workforce strategy.

Great to hear from Y-PERN colleagues at #LBUPolicyWeek highlighting that connecting evidence into policymaking requires wide-reaching collaboration within and across institutions 🤝

Thank you to Andy Mycock and Neil Barnett from Y-PERN for this morning's excellent #LBUPolicyWeek24 workshop on the #Yorkshire policy environment.
Y-PERN has a unique role connecting higher education academics + professionals with policymakers in collaboration not competition.

In this afternoon's #LBUPolicyWeek24 Dr Duncan Radley shares his Whole Systems Approach to #Obesity work -

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A systems approach needs boldness and farsightedness, collaboration and innovation. We need to ask 'How does this help alter the system?'

Read today's #LBUPolicyWeek24 blog by Mark Gamsu

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Prof Gamsu shares his experience of helping shape national policies tackling #health #inequalities - through the important work of community organisations and NHS Confederation funding.

New research by The School of Health, Leeds Beckett University + Locality shows the importance of community organisations in reducing health inequalities.
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The report recommends that national health strategies include the roles of community anchors.
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