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Sketching helps students and staff connect to landscape

Published
Tuesday 11th June, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

A sustainability project is using sketching as a tool to encourage students and staff at Leeds University Business School (LUBS) to appreciate the power of walking.

Group shot of Walking to Zero participants

Language change harms ability to communicate and understand

Published
Wednesday 22nd May, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

Changes to the definitions of conceptual words like ‘woke’ and ‘gaslighting’ are harming our ability to communicate and understand our experiences, a Leeds academic argues.

Poster for the 1944 film, Gaslight

Winner of Brotherton Poetry Prize announced

Published
Thursday 16th May, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

A poet who once wrote in secret has been awarded the University of Leeds Poetry Centre’s 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize by a panel of judges including Poet Laureate and Professor, Simon Armitage. 

Dillon Jaxx, winner of the 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize, with Professor of Poetry and Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, at the Awards Ceremony.

Exhibition explores migration, memory and disability

Published
Thursday 2nd May, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

An exhibition by Leeds-based Iranian artist Mohammad Barrangi opens on 1 May at the University of Leeds, as part of the year-long Smeaton300 celebrations.

Artist Mohammad Barrangi smiles in front of works from 'One Night, One Dream, Life In the Lighthouse' displayed on a red wall

Research inspires beer based on ancient recipe

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

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.

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

Uncovering a CS Lewis poem in Special Collections

Published
Monday 22nd April, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

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

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

Government backs National Poetry Centre on Leeds campus

Published
Thursday 7th March, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

The National Poetry Centre, which will be based on the University of Leeds campus and led by the Poet Laureate, has received significant funding from the Government.

Professor Simon Armitage with the National Poetry Centre logo on a pink slide

Journalism students go on air in former Channel 4 set

Published
Thursday 22nd February, 2024
Categories
Working with business
Working with our region
Arts & Culture

Leeds journalism students are using a cutting-edge studio inherited from Channel 4 for the first time, showcasing their work in front of key members of the broadcaster's team.

Three journalism students in the former Channel 4 set at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds

Creative approach to maths wins DARE Art Prize

Published
Tuesday 20th February, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

Keisha Thompson has been awarded this year’s DARE Art Prize for taking an innovative, playful look at mathematics to make the subject less intimidating.

A dramatic black-and-white image of Keisha Thompson wearing an aviation helmet with dots drawn above their eyebrows

Preserving the Passion: Northern Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet

Published
Tuesday 13th February, 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture

Ahead of Northern Ballet’s revival of Romeo and Juliet, an exhibition at the University of Leeds brings together archival photos, drawings, costumes and props to tell the story of the hit production.

Jayne Regan Pink as Juliet balances with her hands on the shoulders of William Walker as Romeo. Pink holds her legs out and Walker holds his arms out so they form a figure like a cross.