People

As research mentor for a contestant on a BBC Radio 4 programme, Dr Paul Carter (School of Modern Languages) has helped produce an experiment to examine if people sound like they look.

The outstanding achievements of 14 female colleagues were recognised at the inaugural 'Celebrating SET Women at Leeds' event and photographic exhibition yesterday (Thursday 10 May).

Three Leeds researchers have been recognised for excellence in medical science by being elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

'Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog' has been awarded the prestigious Kraszna-Krausz Prize for the best book of 2011 on the moving image.

It is with great sadness that we let colleagues know of the death, at the age of thirty-seven, of Dr Thomas Wagenknecht, Lecturer in the School of Mathematics.

Dr Neil Morris, a senior lecturer from the Faculty of Biological Sciences, has been awarded the Higher Education Biology Teacher of the Year award by the Society of Biology.

Dr David Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Bioethics, has been awarded the Rang Teaching Prize by the British Pharmacological Society.

LUU's inaugural Partnership Awards this year celebrated the achievements of both staff and students at Leeds, acknowledging those who have shown what a difference the Partnership makes in practice.

Professor Susanne Karstedt from the School of Law is to deliver this year's Founder's Day lecture at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Angela Byram, currently Head of Financial Planning and Management Accounting, has been appointed to the position of Faculty Finance Director in the Faculty of Medicine and Health.