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University athletes competing in Commonwealth Games

Published
Wednesday 4th April, 2018
Categories
University

Eight University of Leeds students and alumni, including the Brownlee brothers Alistair and Jonny, have travelled to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia to compete for their countries.

Kim Daybell

Antarctica is retreating across the sea floor

Published
Monday 2nd April, 2018
Categories
Environment
Science

Antarctica’s great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, a new study has found.

Antarctica iceberg

Links between red meat and distal colon cancer

Published
Monday 2nd April, 2018
Categories
Health
Science

A new study suggests that a diet free from red meat significantly reduces the risk of a type of colon cancer in women living in the United Kingdom.

supermarket meat

Air pollution impact on childhood asthma

Published
Tuesday 27th March, 2018
Categories
Environment
Health

New research suggests that up to 38% of all annual childhood asthma cases in Bradford may be caused by air pollution.

childhood asthma and air pollution

'Target investment at poorer-quality parks'

Published
Thursday 22nd March, 2018
Categories
Society & Politics
Arts & Culture
News

A major report into the future of parks in Leeds has recommended the council gets them all up to Green Flag or equivalent standard, the national benchmark for high-quality recreational open spaces.

Image shows the early morning sun rising over Roundhay Park in Leeds with people walking in the distance

Taking a Position – dance inspired by Brexit

Published
Thursday 22nd March, 2018
Categories
Arts & Culture

Their fields of expertise are apparently worlds apart – one is an internationally-respected choreographer, the other a professor of political communication.

Northern School of Contemporary Dance students perform Taking a Position, created by Sharon Watson with Professor Stephen Coleman. Picture: Drazen Priganica

Students vote Leeds top three in the UK

Published
Thursday 22nd March, 2018
Categories
University

The University of Leeds has come third in the UK in a major survey that asks students about their experience while studying.

Students at the University of Leeds in pre-coronavirus times

New £9m programme to transform food systems in Africa

Published
Thursday 22nd March, 2018
Categories
Global
Environment

A £9.2m research programme focused on improving policy making in Africa, to develop sustainable and productive agricultural systems which are resistant to climate change, has been launched.

Africap

Surgeons’ performance benefits from ‘warm-ups’

Published
Tuesday 20th March, 2018
Categories
Science
Health

Surgeons progressively ‘warm-up’ as they repeat a procedure on their operating list, akin to the way athletes’ performance improves across a competition – according to new research.

Image shows a number of operating instruments