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Episode 9: Pride Scholarships at Leeds
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This week we're coming to the end of Pride Month. The month of June is a time when we celebrate and commemorate the LGBT community. We celebrate how far we’ve come from the time of the Stonewall riots of 1969, but we also reflect on the issues that continue to face LGBT people globally.
And that’s something that we want to address at the University of Leeds. To mark the end of Pride month, we have a very special announcement. Leeds intends to establish up to 25 PhD Pride scholarships exploring global issues that impact the LGBT community.
It marks a significant investment for the University in the LGBT community, and its ambitions to become a world leader on LGBT research.
And to explain more we’re joined by Professor of Sociology and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Paul Johnson OBE.
Prof Johnson’s own work was fundamental in bringing about ‘Turing’s Law’ in the UK.
You can read more on the plans for the Pride Scholarships here: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-alumni/news/article/5333/leeds-announces-plans-to-fund-25-phd-pride-scholarships
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