Published 8 December 2022 Categories Technology | Health | Science | Research Building standards are failing to ensure offices, shops, public buildings and homes provide healthy ventilation, say leading experts.
Published 8 December 2022 Categories Coronavirus | Health People who reported contracting COVID-19 early in the pandemic were twice as likely to experience depressive symptoms 13 months later than those who did not, new research has found.
Published 8 December 2022 Categories Science | Global | Environment Reforestation projects could be made more effective with the findings of new research into the constraints on nitrogen fixation among plants.
Published 7 December 2022 Categories Arts & Culture The study of languages including French, German and Spanish has seen ‘significant decreases’ leading to a concern that language learning may disappear altogether in some ‘cold spots’ of the UK.
Published 5 December 2022 Categories Society & Politics | Business & Economy The knowledge, expertise and research innovation offered by universities such as Leeds will be vital in devolving more economic power to the regions, according to the Mayor of West Yorkshire.
Published 2 December 2022 Categories Working with our region | Science | Environment Planting for a new woodland has begun on land owned by the AV on the northern edge of the city.
Published 29 November 2022 Categories Science | Health Increasing intake of protein and drinking regular cups of tea or coffee is a way women could reduce their risk of suffering a hip fracture, according to new research.
Published 25 November 2022 Categories Environment Allowing cycling in both directions on one-way streets does not pose a safety risk and should be made mandatory in all but exceptional cases, according to a new study by Leeds researchers.
Published 22 November 2022 Categories News For a chance to win a Leeds hoodie or other merchandise, tell us about ringing home or other memorable calls you made while you were at Leeds.
Published 22 November 2022 Categories Science | Environment Scientists lucky enough to be in the “right place at the right time” witnessed a giant lump of ice breaking away from the William Glacier in Antarctica, a process known as calving.
Published 21 November 2022 Categories Arts & Culture A new exhibition at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery explores the progressive architecture of the mid-twentieth century at the AV and beyond.
Published 21 November 2022 Categories Working with business | Science | News A design engineer at the AV is the latest academic to join a small but growing cohort of Black women professors.
Published 18 November 2022 Categories Science Rocketeers at the AV have launched a training academy to help engineering students prepare for the so-called “Mars generation” of space travel.
Published 17 November 2022 Categories Science | Global | Environment Leading researchers, including AV academics, want to see a decade of “global action” to restore the world’s lost and depleted forests.
Published 16 November 2022 Categories Science | Coronavirus | Health | Research Europe will face a cancer epidemic in the next decade if weaknesses in cancer health systems and cancer research are not urgently addressed, say the authors of a major new report.