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Woman having EEG while female clinician takes notes

Will EEG be able to read your dreams?

Published
22 August 2024
Categories
Research

One hundred years after the human brain’s electrical activity was first recorded, experts are celebrating the legacy of its discovery and sharing their predictions and priorities for its future.

Four people - Margaret Korosec, Simone Buitendijk, Bethan Corner and Jeff Grabill - stand in front of a screen.

HELIX digital innovation space launches

Published
5 October 2023
Categories
Technology
University

A cutting-edge digital learning space for students, staff and the local community has opened at the University of Leeds.

Leeds alum Dirk Mischendahl and co-founder Josh Lee juggle ice cream pots in front of the Northern Bloc factory

An ice cream revolution starting in Leeds

Published
27 September 2023
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Alumni

Founder and director of Northern Bloc Dirk Mischendahl is doing ice cream differently. The serial entrepreneur returned to Leeds to support enterprising students starting their own business journeys.

Young man wears a virtual reality headset

Festival celebrates digital enterprise and innovation

Published
18 September 2023
Categories
Technology
News

Leeds Digital Festival returns this year with more than 240 events designed to celebrate and explore the city's leading role in digital enterprise and innovation.

A student wearing a virtual reality headset, interacting with Stacey the virtual patient, who is sitting on a chair with her baby next to her in a baby carrier

Virtual patient teaches real-life mental health skills

Published
3 April 2023
Categories
Technology
Health

Extended-reality assisted clinical training in perinatal mental health has been launched by Health Education England in collaboration with the University of Leeds.

LDF 2022 logo

Leeds Digital Festival 2022

Published
20 September 2022
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Working with business
Working with our region
University
Technology

Leeds Digital Festival has announced the full schedule for its latest instalment of the tech showcase, with over 200 events taking place from Tuesday 20 to Friday 30 September.

A person wearing virtual reality equipment stands in the University of Leeds' Highly Immersive Kinematic Experimental Research lab

Making self-driving cars human-friendly

Published
5 October 2021
Categories
Science
Technology

Automated vehicles could be made more pedestrian-friendly thanks to new research which could help predict when people will cross the road.

An arts laboratory

Wellcome funding for medical humanities

Published
22 April 2021
Categories
Arts & Culture

A team from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures has secured £1 million in funding from global charitable foundation Wellcome to develop medical humanities research.

Nissan LEAF, HumanDrive test vehicle

Self-driving the longest route yet

Published
5 February 2020
Categories
Working with business
Technology

A project researching the latest autonomous vehicle technologies has successfully completed a 230-mile self-navigated journey on UK roads.