Contact the Policy Leeds team
Find who to contact if you’d like support from the Policy Leeds team.
each have specific areas of expertise and can be contacted individually for support. Reach out to the team for support with a range of activities related to policymaking and research.
Support with policy work
Connecting public policy work with world-leading research
If you’re a policy professional seeking to engage with research opportunities, or a University member wanting to develop your policy engagement practice:
Email Juliet Jopson, Public Policy Engagement Manager at s.j.jopson@leeds.ac.uk.
Developing policy projects and initiatives
If you’re looking for support with the development of policy projects and initiatives, including gathering knowledge to identify local and national research needs and policy challenges:
Email Claire Smithson, Policy Engagement Officer at c.h.smithson@leeds.ac.uk.
Regional development opportunities and knowledge exchange
If you’re seeking support to develop work contributing to local and regional economic development, including accessing funding, understanding policy priorities, or building connections with regional partners, including Leeds City Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and Yorkshire Universites:
Regional policy engagement
If you need our expertise in working in local government in the region and regional policy engagement:
Email Paul Hayes, Senior Policy Engagement Fellow, at p.hayes@leeds.ac.uk.
Subject-specific policy engagement contacts
Climate change
If you are a policy professional looking to engage with climate researchers across the 亚洲色吧 on climate change or climate action:
Email Peter Walton, Senior Research Consultant, Climate Evidence Unit, at p.walton@leeds.ac.uk.
Leeds University Business School
If you’re a policy professional looking to engage with researchers in Leeds University Business School (LUBS):
Email Paul Hayes, Senior Policy Engagement Fellow, at p.hayes@leeds.ac.uk.
Social Sciences
If you’re a policy professional looking to engage with social science researchers across the 亚洲色吧:
Email Sherif Youssef, Partnerships and Engagement Officer, at s.youssef@leeds.ac.uk.
Other schools or faculties
If you’d like to get in touch with impact policy professionals from another school or faculty across the University who can support you to connect research to policy, email the Policy Leeds team at policy@leeds.ac.uk and we will direct you to the right people to contact.
Engagement and events
Communications
If you’re looking for support with communications, both internal and external, we can assist with:
- Web content
- Social media promotion
- Staff intranet content (University members only)
- Video and blogs
- Policy brief writing
Events, training and activities
If you’re looking for information on upcoming events, training, activities and initiatives, or would like support in planning your own events:
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Professional learning and research impact
If you’re looking for:
- Impact coaching
- Professional development opportunities
- Support with developing impact plans for research grant applications
Email Ged Hall, Academic Development Consultant (Research Impact) at g.hall@leeds.ac.uk.
You can also access our policy and engagement resources page for support with engaging with policymaking.
Policy networks
Many of our staff are involved in a range of policy networks. Contact them to learn more and get involved.
- (UPEN): email Juliet Jopson at s.j.jopson@leeds.ac.uk
- (Y-PERN)- email Claire Smithson at c.h.smithson@leeds.ac.uk.
- Yorkshire and Humber policy officer’s network- email Paul Hayes, acting Secretariat at p.hayes@leeds.ac.uk
Further support
If you have an alternate query to those listed, please email the Policy Leeds team at policy@leeds.ac.uk.