News News

A child and an adult playing with colourful wooden blocks

New school starters not ready for learning

Published
Friday 4th October, 2024
Categories
Society & Politics
Health
Research

A third of children starting reception class in England are not ready for school, with long term consequences, new research has shown.

Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung, Lord Mayor of Leeds, and poet Khadijah Ibrahim view the plaque

Blue plaque highlights anti-slavery history of Leeds

Published
Wednesday 2nd October, 2024
Categories
University
Arts & Culture
Research

Campaigners who were at the forefront of the global movement to abolish slavery, including Wilson Armistead, are being honoured at the University of Leeds.

A graphic white light display projected onto the Laidlaw Library.

Dazzling displays return to brighten campus

Published
Friday 27th September, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture
University

Light Night celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with the University presenting its most exciting programme yet from 24-25 October.

Etching of the Royal Exchange, showing the courtyard and people socialising within it.

Multilingual gossip in Elizabethan London

Published
Wednesday 25th September, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture
Research

Stranger churches in early modern London had ‘eyes everywhere’ to hear, spread and dispel gossip in multiple languages, according to new research.

A large group of people smiling for the photo at Leeds Dock

Corporate Games chooses Leeds for a second year

Published
Tuesday 24th September, 2024
Categories
University

The University of Leeds has been chosen to host the 2025 UK Corporate Games - the first time that the event will be hosted by the same city in consecutive years.

Sigourney Bonner stands in a lab coat

Reducing cancer inequalities for Black people

Published
Monday 23rd September, 2024
Categories
Alumni

Sigourney Bonner (Human Physiology 2014) is driving change for Black people, who are under-represented in cancer research and over-represented in cancer mortality.

Lyndon Timings-Thompson and James McBride are pictured outside Nexus on the University of Leeds campus

Graduate start-ups boost Leeds’ business engagement

Published
Friday 20th September, 2024
Categories
University

Helping graduates start their own businesses and upskilling partner companies has boosted Leeds’ placing in this year’s Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).

Professor Duncan Quincey surveys the debris-covered tongue of the Khumbu Glacier from the peak of Kala Patthar, Nepal, where his previous project EverDrill measured ice temperatures as deep as 200 metres into the glacier.

Scientists to test if snow is melting high on Everest

Published
Thursday 19th September, 2024
Categories
Research

Climbing beyond Everest base camp to test if the snow high up on the mountain is melting is the latest challenge being faced by glaciologists at the University.

Suzanne Glavin shaking hands with HRH Prince of Wales and recieving her brooch.

Royal recognition for women's rugby team

Published
Tuesday 17th September, 2024
Categories
University

Suzanne Glavin, Head of Sport and Physical Activity at Leeds is among a former group of rugby players to receive her cap from HRH The Prince of Wales, after a wait of more than three decades.