News

Lighting up campus: Light Night 2022

Published
Wednesday 12th October, 2022
Categories
Arts & Culture
Working with our region

The University of Leeds is hosting three spectacular art installations as part of Light Night 2022.

The Parkinson Building lit up pink as part of Light Night

Vulnerability and policing research centre launches

Published
Wednesday 12th October, 2022
Categories
Working with our region
Society & Politics

A ground-breaking new research centre aims to change how the police, public services and local government work together to help vulnerable people.

Two police officers, back to camera, walk down a crowded high street.

Leeds professor heads new HSE science group

Published
Tuesday 11th October, 2022
Categories
Business & Economy
Working with business
Technology
Science

A leading researcher who played an important role in Britain’s response to the pandemic has been appointed to chair a new science committee.

Professor Cath Noakes

Cost of living crisis highlights racial inequalities

Published
Tuesday 11th October, 2022
Categories
Society & Politics

Black and minority ethnic people are disproportionately falling faster and further below the poverty line amidst the cost of living crisis, according to a new report.

A couple sit on a sofa looking concerned as they read their bills.

Rethinking young women's working lives

Published
Thursday 6th October, 2022
Categories
Business and partnerships
Society & Politics

New research will examine how women’s early experiences of employment shape long-term career paths and reinforce inequalities in the labour market.

A young woman working as a barista makes coffee.

Calculating the carbon cost of food

Published
Tuesday 4th October, 2022
Categories
Science
Environment

A calculator which could reduce the level of carbon emissions generated by food production and consumption has been developed by data scientists at the University of Leeds.

A selection of healthy food, including chicken, fish and vegetables

Molecules could target cardio-metabolic diseases

Published
Friday 30th September, 2022
Categories
Health

Research over the past two decades has culminated in a “new and promising” approach to developing drugs to treat cardio-metabolic diseases.

Blue X-ray style image of a human torso, with the heart highlighted in red.

How fish survive extreme pressures of ocean life

Published
Wednesday 28th September, 2022
Categories
Environment
Science

Scientists have discovered how a chemical in the cells of marine organisms enables them to survive the high pressures found in the deep oceans.

Schools of fish in rays of sunlight

Using Leeds knowledge to save lives

Published
Monday 26th September, 2022
Categories
News

Poison Information Coordinator Sherika Whitelocke-Ballingsingh (MPh Public Health 2016) has received international recognition for her work to prevent lead poisoning in children across Jamaica.

Sherika Whitelocke-Ballingsingh poses for profile photo