News

Come and Be Curious about university research

Published
Monday 18th March, 2019
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University

A free, family-friendly open day on Saturday 30 March will give an insight into some of the University’s most engaging research.

boy at be curious event

Large-scale research plans for engineering and technology

Published
Thursday 14th March, 2019
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Working with business
Technology

Leeds City Council’s Plans Panel has given the green light to support the University’s application to develop a site that will host large-scale research and experimental facilities.

technology and engineering facilities

Statement

Published
Tuesday 12th March, 2019
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Statements

University of Leeds statement: Leeds University Union's Better Union forum (11/03/19)

Climate change threatens rainfall for agriculture

Published
Monday 11th March, 2019
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Global
Environment

A new study suggests climate change will significantly alter rainfall patterns for key agricultural regions, but the worst effects could be mitigated by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Wheat

Massive twin star snuggles close to its stellar sibling

Published
Monday 11th March, 2019
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Technology
Science

Astronomers have discovered a binary star system with the closest high-mass young stellar objects ever measured, providing a valuable “laboratory” to test theories on high mass binary star formation.

VLT Unit Telescopes Credit: .Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com)/ESO

Swallows and Armenians – reappraising a children’s classic

Published
Friday 8th March, 2019
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Arts & Culture

John, Susan, Titty, Roger. The fictional Walker children are much-loved characters in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons – a quintessentially English family in an archetypal children’s classic.

Mavis Guzelian (née Altounyan), the inspiration for Titty, on the lap of a nanny while boating on Coniston Lake in the early 1920s with her older sisters Taqui (l) and Susie and their maternal aunt Barbara. © Guzelian Ltd

Celebrating apprenticeships at Leeds

Published
Tuesday 5th March, 2019
Categories
University

As part of National Apprenticeship Week, the University is celebrating the early success of its apprenticeship programmes.

International students