Research and innovation News

Jane Madeley, the University's Chief Financial Officer

Key regional leadership role for CFO

Published
Wednesday 15th December, 2021
Categories
Business & Economy
University
Working with business
Working with our region

Jane Madeley, the University’s Chief Financial Officer, has been named as the next Chair of the CBI’s Yorkshire & Humber Regional Council.

The University of Leeds Parkinson Building with a blue sky in the background

University sets out its Climate Plan

Published
Tuesday 14th December, 2021
Categories
Environment
Working with our region
University

The University of Leeds is making the single biggest investment in its history to achieve a low carbon future.

Professor Martin Iddon pictured smiling and holding an Ivor Novello Award

Leeds academic wins Ivor Novello Award  

Published
Thursday 9th December, 2021
Categories
Arts & Culture

Professor Martin Iddon, Head of the School of Music at the University of Leeds, has won the Ivors Composers Award for Solo Composition. 

Street sign which says 'Playground'

Inequalities blighting children's lives in the North

Published
Tuesday 7th December, 2021
Categories
Society & Politics
Working with our region
Coronavirus
Health

Children growing up in the North of England face greater poverty and are more likely to die before reaching their first birthday than children in other parts of England, according to a new report.

Fossils of the now-extinct trilobite organism, Selenopeltis

Volcanic fertilisation of the oceans drove severe mass extinction

Published
Thursday 2nd December, 2021
Categories
News
Environment

Scientists discover two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in the oceans, causing one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history.