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Communities needing help to put food on tables

Published
Tuesday 8th November, 2022
Categories
Health

Communities across the UK which need help to access affordable food have been identified in a groundbreaking study by researchers at the University of Leeds.

A supermarket trolley in a supermarket aisle

Scientists and engineers champion building ventilation

Published
Tuesday 8th November, 2022
Categories
Working with business
Science
Global
Health

A campaign promoting the role of better building ventilation to support health and wellbeing has been launched by a coalition of scientists and engineering bodies.

Ventilation ducts in a building

New materials to drive UK economic growth

Published
Monday 7th November, 2022
Categories
Working with business
Science
Technology

The Government has announced a £95 million boost to develop the new materials of the future through research at the Henry Royce Institute, a consortium of nine institutions including Leeds.

Grant Shapps, the Business Secretary, touring a lab at the Henry Royce Institute

Negotiating on behalf of the UK

Published
Friday 4th November, 2022
Categories
Alumni

Acting on behalf of the UK in climate negotiations, Leeds alum Kate Fearnyough travelled to COP27 hoping the conference would accelerate mitigation action around the world.

Kate Fearnyough head and shoulders profile

Magnetism could help explain Earth’s formation

Published
Thursday 3rd November, 2022
Categories
Science

A peculiar property of the Earth’s magnetic field could help us to work out how our planet was created 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new scientific assessment.

Artist's impression of a collision between the Moon and Earth

Reassessing Sir Herbert Read

Published
Wednesday 2nd November, 2022
Categories
Alumni

The Henry Moore Foundation's new research season features former Leeds student Sir Herbert Read.

black and white photo of Sir Herbert Read sitting outside

Congo peatlands could release billions of tonnes of carbon

Published
Wednesday 2nd November, 2022
Categories
Science
Environment
Global

The world’s largest tropical peatland turned from being a major store of carbon to a source of carbon dioxide emissions as a result of climate change thousands of years ago, new research has revealed.

Fishing camp on the Ikelemba River, DRC

Fighting Egypt's plastic waste

Published
Friday 28th October, 2022
Categories
Alumni

When growing up in Cairo, plastic pollutants had a devastating impact upon Aya Al-Sharqawy and her family. It was the motivation she needed to tackle the crisis head on after Leeds.

Aya Al Sharqawy stands in a field of crops in Egypt

Graduate art prize winner announced

Published
Thursday 27th October, 2022
Categories
Arts & Culture

BA Fine Art student Astrid Butt has been awarded the 2022 Friends of University Art and Music Graduate prize.

Two still images from 'Bird Diaries' showing the subject of Astrid's film: a figure wearing a large bird mask and skin coloured body suit.