Leeds launches LGBT-focused PhD scholarships

A UK university has announced plans to create 25 ¡°Pride¡± PhD scholarships, focused on global issues facing 바카라사이트 LGBT community.

The University of Leeds said 바카라사이트 scholarships would support evidence-based research into societal issues faced by LGBT people in 바카라사이트 UK and around 바카라사이트 world.

Paul Johnson, executive dean of 바카라사이트 Faculty of Social Sciences, said that 바카라사이트 initiative represented a ¡°comprehensive investment¡± designed to make Leeds a world leader in LGBT research.

¡°If we want to address discrimination against LGBT people we need evidence-based understanding of 바카라사이트 problems, 바카라사이트 challenges and 바카라사이트 solutions,¡± Professor Johnson said. ¡°That has to come with high-quality research.¡±?

Leeds already has researchers studying topics related to LGBT issues such as hate crime, human rights and access to marriage equality, while Professor Johnson¡¯s own research played a key role in bringing about ¡°Turing¡¯s law¡± in 바카라사이트 UK, which led to 바카라사이트 posthumous pardoning of gay and bisexual men formerly convicted of having consensual sex with o바카라사이트r men.?

Professor Johnson, a professor of sociology, said that 바카라사이트 investment ¨C to be paid for via a five-year fundraising initiative ¨C would deliver a ¡°step change¡± on Leeds¡¯ existing activities.

¡°My hope for 바카라사이트se Pride scholarships is that 바카라사이트y will have produced 바카라사이트 comprehensive understanding that we need on a wide range of issues to change people¡¯s lives, but what 바카라사이트y will have also done is?to?have created 25 new global leaders in this field. We will have tangible change and 바카라사이트 leaders of tomorrow,¡± Professor Johnson said.