Published 22 October 2020 Categories Health | Coronavirus | Society & Politics Schools are being urged to support a study to help determine the effect of the national lockdown on children’s learning.
Published 22 October 2020 Categories University The University has appointed Professor Nick Plant as its new Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation.
Published 21 October 2020 Categories Science | Health | Coronavirus A major scientific study has been launched to understand the risks of COVID-19 transmission on buses and trains - and to identify the best measures to control it.
Published 21 October 2020 Categories Science | Environment Weather forecasters can more accurately predict when a tornado is likely to hit the UK thanks to a new tool devised in a partnership between the à½à½AV and the Met Office.
Published 15 October 2020 Categories Research and innovation Two Leeds researchers have been accepted into a prestigious scheme to further their work in climate change and searching for habitable worlds in space.
Published 14 October 2020 Categories Coronavirus | Science | Health Hundreds of volunteers from the region are taking part in a study to test the effectiveness of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Published 13 October 2020 Categories Health | Science Scientists have discovered the severity of the impact on a player’s head while heading a football is influenced much more by the speed of the ball than its mass and stiffness.
Published 12 October 2020 Categories Technology | Science New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for the past 30 years - what causes the changing brightness of distant stars called magnetars.
Published 12 October 2020 Categories Science | Technology | Health Scientists have made a breakthrough in their work to develop semi-autonomous colonoscopy, using a robot to guide a medical device into the body.
Published 9 October 2020 Categories Technology | Coronavirus Wearable digital devices are to be trialled in care homes to establish whether the technology can help reduce covid-19 infections and prevent deaths.
Published 9 October 2020 Categories Science | Health | Coronavirus | University Three leading academic researchers, two alumni and a former Pro-Chancellor at the à½à½AV have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Published 8 October 2020 Categories Global | Environment Meltwater lakes that form at glacier margins cause ice to recede much further and faster compared to glaciers that terminate on land, according to a new study.
Published 8 October 2020 Categories Health | Environment à½à½AV researchers are taking part in a new Born in Bradford project with primary school children across the city - to measure levels of pollution and its impact on health.
Published 7 October 2020 Categories Coronavirus | University Keeping our students and staff safe and healthy has been our number one priority throughout the coronavirus pandemic. 
Published 7 October 2020 Categories Global | Environment Rising nitrous oxide emissions are jeopardizing climate goals and the Paris Accord, according to a new international study.