LEEDS 2023 kicks off with spectacular show featuring Poet Laureate
Poet Laureate and Professor of Poetry, Simon Armitage has urged Leeds to 'wake up' to its creative potential in a song penned for the city's festival of culture.
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771 results for 'immersive technologies'
Ambitious global plans for European partnership
A major European research partnership is to expand its collaborative projects to help tackle pressing global issues.
New Year Honours at the University of Leeds
Members of the University of Leeds community are among those recognised in the New Year Honours.
UK needs to use phosphorus sustainably
Phosphorus use in the UK needs to be better managed and used in a much more sustainable way to reduce river pollution and increase resilience over rising fertiliser prices, say researchers.
Building standards failing to deliver healthy ventilation
Building standards are failing to ensure offices, shops, public buildings and homes provide healthy ventilation, say leading experts.
Preventing European cancer epidemic
Europe will face a cancer epidemic in the next decade if weaknesses in cancer health systems and cancer research are not urgently addressed, say the authors of a major new report.
Scientists and engineers champion building ventilation
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.
New materials to drive UK economic growth
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.
Graduate art prize winner announced
BA Fine Art student Astrid Butt has been awarded the 2022 Friends of University Art and Music Graduate prize.
Mapping the pressures of global food production
A map showing the environmental pressures from global food production has been developed by researchers, to identify ways of creating more sustainable and just food systems.