In this video, Jocelyn and Richard discuss the state of the UK’s electoral system. Is it still fit for purpose or are the arguments for change now overwhelming? The key questions they debate are: - Is it true the FPTP system isolates smaller parties, or have they now found ways of working through the system? - Does the existing electoral system help prevent radical parties from gaining a foothold, or does it deny some people representation simply because we don’t like their views? - With the decline of the two-party system and the emergence of a more diverse electorate is there anything FPTP has still got in its favour?

Staff and students of the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) attending Buckingham Palace in February 2010 to receive the 'Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education' from the Queen herself. License : All Rights Reserved

In this podcast we compare two of the top Olympic sponsors, Samsung and McDonald's and argue as to which ones we believe may be more ethical than the other.

The achievements of a pioneering Yorkshire MP Alice Bacon were commemorated with a public lecture by senior MP Harriet Harman. Alice Bacon was elected to represent Leeds North East in 1945 and served her city constituents continuously until her retirement a quarter of a century later (she transferred to Leeds South East when constituency boundaries were revised in 1955). Awarded a CBE in the 1953 Coronation Honours, she took up a seat in the Lords as a Baroness on her retirement as an MP in 1970. Leeds did not return another woman to the Commons until the election in 2010 of Leeds West MP Rachel Reeves, who is also Baroness Bacon’s biographer. Now Ms Reeves has teamed up with the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, for the first in what will be a regular series of lectures in the name of her trailblazing forebear, aimed at commemorating the achievements of Leeds women – locally and nationally. Ms Harman’s lecture, From Pioneers to Parity? 100 Years of Female Suffrage, was given in the Great Hall at the University on Thursday 25 January. Read more: http://po.st/ucmuJO

Masters students, postgraduate researchers and staff share their experiences of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds and why they are passionate about their subject.