New £180,000 research to support the growth of community projects that tackle health inequalities

Academics at Leeds Beckett University are launching a new project to help to scale up successful community projects across the UK which tackle health inequalities through arts and culture. The new research is a partnership between the Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett, Social Life – a specialist centre of research and innovation focused on the social life of communities – and Locality – a national network supporting community organisations. It aims to build the tools and support needed for community organisations to grow their projects which tackle…

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Leeds Beckett University team wins ‘The Pitch’ national marketing competition to be named ‘Marketers of the Future’

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) has announced a student team from Leeds Beckett University as winners of its national student marketing competition, The Pitch. This year, the competition was sponsored by Samsung UK with student teams challenged to find creative ways to market its new foldable mobile phone category to Gen Z. Jessica Rolph, Hannah Napier and Georgina Tordoff from team ‘Brains of Beckett’, beat teams from across the UK to be crowned ‘Marketers of the Future’. Due to Covid-19, the live final of the competition was held virtually…

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