📣 The gendered burden of safety work in urban parks: women’s experiences in West Yorkshire’s green spaces www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We will be examining the proposed revisions in detail & encourage everyone to take part in the consultation to help shape and ensure any changes improve victims’ experiences.

Check out this ESRC White Rose studentship! It offers a chance to do a PhD with two great supervisors, @dralimalik.bsky.social and @adamcrawford.bsky.social in a fascinating area. Read more👇

Homicides in England and Wales fall to lowest level since records began

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Dr Rebecca Shaw and her partners have created a programme on domestic abuse which is being aired on Chapel FM. Together, they discuss four fictional stories of abuse, as well as hold a discussion with victim-survivors from the Voices Project. Listen to these brilliant episodes 👇 tinyurl.com/2zfe4uaw

Our Drs @annabarker.bsky.social and Rebecca Shaw presented at the @societal.bsky.social Impact Acceleration Account showcase, which highlighted collaborations across industry, public sector and communities. Learn more about their impactful work👇 bit.ly/49Wa8mp #SocialImpact #KnowledgeExchange

‘Directions, divergences, and dilemmas: What next for the feminist project in law?’ You are very welcome to @lsjleeds.bsky.social's Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor @joanneconaghan.bsky.social. 📅10 March ⏰ 17:00- 19:30 📍Liberty Building LG.06 For more and to register👇 tinyurl.com/5emw347w

@cblpleeds.bsky.social are issuing a Call for Papers for the 5th Conference on Financial Law and Regulation! Hosted in Leeds, the Conference is taking place 24th-25th June 2026. The submission date for abstracts is 17th April 2026. To read more and submit your abstracts👇 tinyurl.com/44nnxvdb

80% of women in the UK have experienced harassment in public spaces. Want to make a real difference? 84% said the situation improved when someone intervened. Attend our FREE 30 min training #Webinar to become an active bystander to intervene safely. www.suzylamplugh.org/Pages/Catego...

📻Our @annabarker.bsky.social appears on BBC Radio 4's Living and Light, explaining how urban lighting affects safety and accessibility for women and girls, and the role lighting has been found to play in making these areas more accessible. Listen👇 tinyurl.com/3aakjy87 (Clip starts at 22:00)

📣School of Law academic in the news! Our Professor Graham Farrell leads a national conference urging rounded kitchen knives to curb stabbings, presenting research on knife-harm reduction to victims, campaigners and Home Office ministers. Clip 👇 tinyurl.com/zre95dru

📢 Call for abstracts 📢 We’re delighted to open the call for abstracts for LEPH2026, to be held in Leeds, UK from 6-9 September 2026. We encourage submissions from researchers, practitioners, policymakers, & community leaders. Deadline: 16/03/26 Read more and submit 👇 leph2026.org

We are delighted to announce the formation of The Ecological Law and Justice Group. The Group provides a focal point for the School's outstanding research and teaching in areas related to the environment. For more about their ambitions, experts, and how to get involved 👇 tinyurl.com/bdhkh7av

1 week until our webinar “Policing, climate vulnerabilities and pathways of resilience”, which will explore findings from @dralimalik.bsky.social's & Dr Anna Matczak's projects. 📅 13 November 🕛 12-1pm GMT @lawatleeds.bsky.social Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-po...

Frank Dawtry Lecture on Friday on the subject of alcohol addiction. Register and come along! ⬇️

Dr Rebecca Shaw’s ‘Changing the Narrative of Domestic Abuse’ is a creative, evidence-based programme of Relationships, Sex and Health Education lessons on domestic abuse aimed at secondary school students years 7-11. Learn more about this vital resource👇 tinyurl.com/yhpzs2wa @ccjsleeds.bsky.social

Make Space for Girls is looking for a new Chair of Trustees. We campaign for better parks and public spaces for teenage girls and young women - spaces where they feel welcome, safe and valued. Apply by 28 November www.makespaceforgirls.co.uk/blog/could-y...

Today is National Personal Safety Day 2025 🎉 This year, alongside our sponsors @Peoplesafe, we are #ChangingShifts, #ChangingSafety by launching new research on workplace violence across hospitality, retail, transport and healthcare.

🚨Application window extended 🚨 Colleagues from @universityofleeds.bsky.social can now apply for the next Building Impact Momentum programme - helping researchers to define their research impact (impact beyond the academy & not academic impact) & build it into their research projects. Full details👇

As things stand, child poverty is on track to reach record highs by 2029-30. By then, we predict that more than one-in-three British children (34 per cent) would be growing up in poverty. That's the highest rate of child poverty we'd have seen since 1961 ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs

Our Dr Charlotte Barlow is in the news, weighing in on Clare's Law, the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme. Her research shows Clare's Law is most effective for safeguarding when it is accessed earlier in a relationship, before a victim is fully under their partner's control. 👇 tinyurl.com/mpzt8fr6

The digital divide continues to limit the life chances of millions of children in Northern England. Join our campaign to put #ChildrenFirst www.n8research.org.uk/research-foc... Head to the comments for more info and resources... #DigitalDivide #DigitalInclusion #DigitalFutures

📣Call #Leeds residents Please complete this @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social survey on how safe women and girls feel when running and exercising in parks and public spaces. Closes 30th November 2025. surveys.leeds.gov.uk/s/WNPXZ8/ Please re-share with your Leeds networks

🚨 Children in the North face a health crisis due to inactivity & inequality🚨 Leeds Institute for Societal Futures backs the #ChildrenFirst campaign calling for urgent change. Read the report and find out more👉 bit.ly/3KVmiTN #ChildOfTheNorth #HealthInequalities #N8 @universityofleeds.bsky.social

🌳 While the official #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign comes to a close today, our work continues because everyone deserves to feel safe, welcome and respected in our parks. 💚

Join us for our upcoming webinar “Policing, climate vulnerabilities and pathways of resilience”, which will explore findings from @dralimalik.bsky.social's (@lawatleeds.bsky.social) and Dr Anna Matczak's (THUAS) projects. 📅 13 November 🕛 12pm-1pm 📍 Online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-po...

Support the #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign to create #SaferParks. 💡Learn the 5Ds to intervene safely ✅Get free active bystander training 🚩Display eye-catching posters ⬇️Download Safer Parks guidance 📣Lets StandUp together 🔗 Visit campaign at: shorturl.at/AP3uK

Girls' use of parks drops after the age of 11. At a time when they should be gaining independence, many girls start to avoid parks. Why? They feel that parks aren’t for them - there is nothing to do. Also, many state they don’t feel safe.

🌳Parks are essential green spaces for exercise, socialising, relaxation, but 1 in 6 UK women feel unsafe in them even in daylight. That's why @annabarker.bsky.social @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social & @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social have launched the #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign

👏 Endorsed by #PoliceCrimePreventionInitiatives, the 2nd edition of the #SaferParks guidance was launched at the #NationalProblemSolvingConference 🎥 Michael Brooke reflects on the vital link between crime prevention and safe park design and calls for the guidance to be used to make a difference.

What would you do if you saw harassment in your local park? 🌳 Harassment in parks and public spaces is a key safety concern for women and girls — and park staff are often the first to witness or respond. 🧵 (1/6)

A quick win for many organisations looking to up-skill their workforces ⬇️

Look around parks - who is missing? Teenage girls are systemically designed out of parks and public spaces. We campaign to design them in. It’s just 5 days to go until the Big Give campaign starts. Donate to Make Space for Girls between 8-15 October and every donation is doubled.

📣 Ever seen harassment take place but not been sure what to do? Our bystander training equips you with five simple tools to recognise and address harassment, helping create safer spaces for everyone. 📍 Sessions last 30 minutes and run most weeks - register now: shorturl.at/fqPfC

Ever seen harassment in a park and didn’t know what to do? 💡Learn the 5Ds to intervene safely: Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, Direct. ✅Free bystander training: shorturl.at/TVJbF 🔗Visit #SaferParks campaign: www.greenflagaward.org/safer-parks-...

Safer Parks guidance is back! Created by our @annabarker.bsky.social and her partners, the new edition has tailored advice for different audiences, including park managers, local authorities, and Designing Out Crime Officers. Read more about its contents and impact 👇 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4x9snzyt

🌳 Volunteers from #FriendsofParks groups already do so much to keep our green spaces thriving — and you can help make them safer too. 💬 Training gave people confidence and simple, safe ways to step in. 🙌 94% left confident and empowered 👉 Our free bystander training is for everyone ⬇️ #SaferParks

80% of UK women have experienced harassment, yet 75% say no one stepped in. Our #SaferParks campaign highlights the prevalence of street harassment in parks, encouraging staff, volunteers and the public to help us create more welcoming green spaces.

Join us - launch event of Leeds Institute for Societal Futures. Bringing key stakeholders together to find solutions to some of society's most urgent challenges. 🗓️29/9/25, 3-5pm 📍University of Leeds 🔗Register bit.ly/46dcU54 #Leeds #InstituteForSocietalFutures #LISF @universityofleeds.bsky.social

🌳 Parks should be places of freedom and wellbeing. But for many women, harassment changes how they move, when they go, and whether they feel safe enough to use them at all. Everyone deserves to enjoy parks without fear. We can all play a role in changing this. ⬇️ #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment

I highly recommend this training for anyone interested in making their local parks and green spaces safer for women and girls! The training is fabulous and evidence-backed! We found it reduced barriers to intervention and improved confidence in specific intervention skills.

🚨 New report 🚨 We funded Dr Sarah Shorrock to lead a research project that aimed to provide Roma communities in Bradford with a voice and to explore what it means to be Roma, alongside capturing police perceptions of what being Roma means. Read more👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/lost-in-tran...

🌳 Do you know what makes a park feel safe, welcoming and inclusive? For the #SaferParks campaign, we are spotlighting parks guidance explains why features such as lighting, layout, accessibility, location and the presence of authority figures are key to ensuring everyone enjoys our green spaces.

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social. The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027. Salary: £41,064-£48,822 Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social Deadline: 13 October 2025 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

📰Our @annabarker.bsky.social pens an article for The Developer about new campaign - Safer Parks: Stand Up Against Street Harassment saying: ‘we must create a community of active bystanders to make our parks safer and more inclusive, on the launch of a new campaign.’ 👇 tinyurl.com/28rc86x3

In collaboration with @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social, @greenflagaward.bsky.social, and @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social, @annabarker.bsky.social from @lawatleeds.bsky.social is driving a new campaign to make our parks safer and more inclusive for everyone 🌳 #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment

Our @annabarker.bsky.social is driving forward a major #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign in partnership with @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social, @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social and Green Flag Award to make our parks safer, more inclusive spaces for all. Learn more👇 tinyurl.com/3ptye9rj

Our Head of Policy and Campaigns, Saskia Garner, spoke to BBC London Breakfast about the Safer Parks Bystander Training, which we've launched together with @universityofleeds.bsky.social‬ and ‪@keepbritaintidy.bsky.social‬.