Leeds International Summer School News

Two children are watching a Professor show them the parts of the human body on a model.

Get inspired at Be Curious 2024

Published
Friday 26th April, 2024
Categories
Working with our region
University

Be Curious, the annual University of Leeds family open day, is back for 2024.

Dramatic shot of a cup of beer, the Northern Monk Mhór can and three candles

Research inspires beer based on ancient recipe

Published
Thursday 25th April, 2024
Categories
Working with business
Arts & Culture
Research

Northern Monk Brew Co. and a historian at the University of Leeds have collaborated to brew Mhór, a beer inspired by a 5,000-year-old recipe made in Northern England.

Pupils from Leeds City Academy use brushes to detect fingerprints at a mocked-up crime scene.

Pupils become knife crime ambassadors

Published
Wednesday 24th April, 2024
Categories
Working with our region

Campaigner Sarah Lloyd, whose 17 year-old son died after being brutally stabbed, has shared the devastating impact of his death with local schoolchildren in an anti-knife crime initiative.

Hands carefully holding ‘Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg’, a handwritten manuscript by CS Lewis

Uncovering a CS Lewis poem in Special Collections

Published
Monday 22nd April, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture
Research

A forgotten poem by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis reveals details of friendships between fantasy writers and medievalists at the University of Leeds.

Brook Driver holds a prop sword on a film set

Directing the stars: Alum film director on latest release

Published
Wednesday 17th April, 2024
Categories
News

Writer and director Brook Driver wrote his first full feature screen play during third year at Leeds. In April 2024, his debut film Swede Caroline was released in cinemas across the UK.

Students and Professor Xiaowei Zhuang smile at the camera at the Astbury Conversation

Scientists inspire the next generation

Published
Wednesday 10th April, 2024
Categories
Working with our region

School pupils have been inspired by world-renowned scientists as they learned about the latest innovations in molecular biology at The Astbury Conversation.

A gloved hand holds a test tube containing a sample of blood. there is a label on the test tube which says Fe (Iron) test

Obese and overweight children at risk of iron deficiency

Published
Wednesday 10th April, 2024
Categories
Health
Research

Children and young people who are overweight or obese are at significantly higher risk of iron deficiency, according to a study by nutritional scientists at the University of Leeds.