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Water pours into river from rusty pipe

Published
21 May 2024
Categories
Environment | Health

The risk to public health from human faeces in our rivers and seas will increase without action to create a wastewater system fit for the future, according to a Leeds academic.

Professor Paul Johnson

Published
21 May 2024
Categories
Society & Politics

A move by the Ministry of Defence to amend the records of LGBT service personnel unfairly discharged prior to 1967 has been welcomed by the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

A photo of the sustainable garden on campus with buildings in the background

Published
20 May 2024
Categories
Working with our region | Environment

A climate education hub that will help young people across all educational settings turn their sustainability ambitions into action will be hosted by the à½à½AV.

A head and shoulders photograph of Professor Ken Carslow next to a graphic banner of the Royal Society

Published
17 May 2024
Categories
University

Professor Ken Carslaw has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition for his invaluable contribution to science.

Dillon Jaxx, winner of the 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize, with Professor of Poetry and Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, at the Awards Ceremony.

Published
16 May 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

A poet who once wrote in secret has been awarded the à½à½AV Poetry Centre’s 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize by a panel of judges including Poet Laureate and Professor, Simon Armitage. 

Rack of book bags and coats on pegs

Published
15 May 2024
Categories
Health | Society & Politics | Research

A report co-led by the à½à½AV calls for joined up support around schools and nurseries to reduce absences, tackle the impact of poverty and boost children’s readiness for the day.

an aerial shot of the Zambezi river

Published
10 May 2024
Categories
Environment | Research

A new model for predicting the effects of climate change on malaria transmission in Africa could lead to more targeted interventions to control the disease according to a new study.

INFUZE partners pose with Beryl bikes by the side of the road. In the background are two Enterprise car club cars

Published
10 May 2024
Categories
Environment

A multimillion-pound project to encourage people in Leeds to design and try an alternative to private vehicle ownership has been announced by researchers.

An older couple crossing a bridge arm in arm

Published
9 May 2024
Categories
Science | Health

Patients’ risk of falling in the next 12 months could be predicted from their NHS data using a newly developed calculator. 

Rachel Woolford, Jane Slimming and Becky Dam with a large group of students.

Published
7 May 2024
Categories
University | Working with business

Students from Leeds University Business School (LUBS) showed off their entrepreneurial spirit as they pitched business ideas to industry experts in the LUBS Entrepreneur Award 2024.

The four peregrine falcon chicks in the nest on Parkinson tower, being fed by one of their parents

Published
3 May 2024
Categories
University

Four tiny peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in the nest on Parkinson Tower this week.

Four members of University staff standing in front of equipment in new nuclear research facility

Published
3 May 2024
Categories
News

The creation of a new cutting-edge facility has established the à½à½AV as the UK’s leading experimental nuclear institution in the field of multiphase fluid flow.

Artist Mohammad Barrangi smiles in front of works from 'One Night, One Dream, Life In the Lighthouse' displayed on a red wall

Published
2 May 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

An exhibition by Leeds-based Iranian artist Mohammad Barrangi opens on 1 May at the à½à½AV, as part of the year-long Smeaton300 celebrations.

Lyndon Timings-Thompson and James McBride are pictured outside Nexus on the à½à½AV campus

Published
1 May 2024
Categories
Business & Economy

The founder of a social enterprise that helps disadvantaged people back into work has been recognised in a list of Europe’s top young entrepreneurs.

Artist’s concept of a golden exoplanet with a ring around it, spiralling in towards its star.

Published
29 April 2024
Categories
Science | Research

A new study has uncovered a mechanism that could solve a long-standing mystery about decaying planetary orbits around stars like our Sun.Â