News

How did you keep in touch?

Published
Tuesday 22nd November, 2022
Categories
News

For a chance to win a Leeds hoodie or other merchandise, tell us about ringing home or other memorable calls you made while you were at Leeds.

Two students on a bench, one using mobile phone

Underwater tsunamis created by glacier break-up

Published
Tuesday 22nd November, 2022
Categories
Science
Environment

Scientists lucky enough to be in the “right place at the right time” witnessed a giant lump of ice breaking away from the William Glacier in Antarctica, a process known as calving.

William Glacier

New exhibition explores Brutalist architecture

Published
Monday 21st November, 2022
Categories
Arts & Culture

A new exhibition at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery explores the progressive architecture of the mid-twentieth century at the University of Leeds and beyond.

Black and white photo of the Roger Stevens Building: A large Brutalist -style structure at the University of Leeds

Student rocketeers aim high with next mission

Published
Friday 18th November, 2022
Categories
Science

Rocketeers at the University of Leeds have launched a training academy to help engineering students prepare for the so-called “Mars generation” of space travel.

students carry Gryphon I to launchpad in New Mexico

'Decade of action' to restore world's forests

Published
Thursday 17th November, 2022
Categories
Science
Global
Environment

Leading researchers, including University of Leeds academics, want to see a decade of “global action” to restore the world’s lost and depleted forests.

Tropical forest

Preventing European cancer epidemic 

Published
Wednesday 16th November, 2022
Categories
Science
Coronavirus
Health

Europe will face a cancer epidemic in the next decade if weaknesses in cancer health systems and cancer research are not urgently addressed, say the authors of a major new report. 

A large crowd of people walking on a busy road

My Dad Wrote a Porno gang met at Leeds

Published
Monday 14th November, 2022
Categories
News

From a kitchen table to the Royal Albert Hall: how three Leeds alumni turned some dubious content into comedy gold.

My Dad Wrote a Porno friends throwing papers from manuscript in the air.

Benefit deductions are deepening poverty in Leeds

Published
Monday 14th November, 2022
Categories
Health
Working with our region
Society & Politics

Leeds residents are increasingly having to borrow from loan sharks and high-interest lenders to meet their basic needs because of issues with their benefits, according to new research.

A Trussell Trust food bank

Cost of living payments

Published
Friday 11th November, 2022
Categories
University
Statements

The University of Leeds has announced further cost of living support for staff, students and post-graduate researchers (PGRs).