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Rethink the economy to tackle climate crisis 

Published
Thursday 5th August, 2021
Categories
Global
Business & Economy
Environment

Research into global climate models by leading international academics shows that current economic policies are in danger of leading nations away from emission and global warming targets.

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Claire Cashmore: The road to Tokyo

Published
Monday 2nd August, 2021
Categories
Alumni

Claire Cashmore MBE (Linguistics and Phonetics, 2011; Hon LLD, 2013) goes into her fifth Paralympic Games facing a whole new challenge.

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Scientists reverse age-related memory loss in mice

Published
Monday 26th July, 2021
Categories
Health
Science

Scientists at Leeds and Cambridge have successfully reversed age-related memory loss in mice and say their discovery could lead to the development of treatments to prevent memory loss in people.

Four academics who have been awarded British Academy Fellowships

British Academy honours for Leeds

Published
Friday 23rd July, 2021
Categories
Arts & Culture
News

Three Leeds academics have been elected to British Academy Fellowships, and Simon Armitage - Poet Laureate and Professor of Poetry - has been elected an Honorary Fellow.

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Helping Yorkshire reduce its carbon footprint

Published
Thursday 22nd July, 2021
Categories
Health
Environment

A West Yorkshire city’s ambitious plans to tackle the effects of climate change are being supported by three University of Leeds students.

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New BHF fellowships for future research leaders

Published
Thursday 22nd July, 2021
Categories
Health

Eight new fellowships designed to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in science have been awarded at Leeds, thanks to an historical endowment established alongside the British Heart Foundation.

Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer ahead of Corbyn in opposition leaders survey

Published
Wednesday 21st July, 2021
Categories
Society & Politics

A new survey carried out by academics specialising in British politics from universities across the UK has rated Sir Keir Starmer as a better post-war Leader of the Opposition than Jeremy Corbyn.

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Creating a gold standard of care for long COVID

Published
Sunday 18th July, 2021
Categories
Coronavirus
Health

A major £3.4 million research project has launched to identify the best way to treat and support the one million people in the UK now living with long COVID.