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Three students on an apprenticeship programme in a classroom, studying a screen.

Upskilling the nation’s workforce

Published
Monday 7th February, 2022
Categories
Working with business
Working with our region
University

From nursing to computer science, apprenticeships at the University of Leeds offer an alternative route into higher level qualifications.

Olivia Cotes-James sat at a table with boxes of LUÜNA Naturals products on the table.

Olivia Cotes-James: Talking taboos

Published
Saturday 15th January, 2022
Categories
Alumni

Named in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list, founder of LUÜNA Naturals Olivia Cotes-James (English Literature 2013) is improving lives across a continent.

Handwritten letters signed by Branwell Brontë held by hands in white gloves

University home for Brontë treasure trove

Published
Thursday 16th December, 2021
Categories
Working with our region
Arts & Culture

Rare handwritten manuscripts and printed books by the Brontës have been entrusted to the University's Brotherton Library.

Fossils of the now-extinct trilobite organism, Selenopeltis

Volcanic fertilisation of the oceans drove severe mass extinction

Published
Thursday 2nd December, 2021
Categories
News
Environment

Scientists discover two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in the oceans, causing one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history.

A wind farm with sheep grazing in the foreground

Industry 'must prepare now' for green electricity

Published
Thursday 28th October, 2021
Categories
Working with business
Environment

Industry must speed up investment in new technologies that allow manufacture of materials using renewable electricity if net zero emissions targets are to be met, researchers warn.

A black-and-white photo of Lawrence and William Henry Bragg

100 years on, the scientists still shaping science

Published
Tuesday 26th October, 2021
Categories
Science
Arts & Culture

An exhibition about a father and son team who made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th century opens today at the University.

Female hiker applying spray-on sunscreen outdoors.

Reduced protection of some sunscreens

Published
Thursday 14th October, 2021
Categories
Science
Health

Some sunscreens offer very limited protection against dangerous sunrays during use and may even be harmful.

Alum Cec Thompson running on the Parkinson steps holding an umbrella and a scroll.

Cec Thompson: The most remarkable of graduates

Published
Friday 1st October, 2021
Categories
Alumni

Cec Thompson's (Economics, 1968, Hon MA, 1994) remarkable rise on the rugby field is matched only by his achievements off it, as he pushed himself from illiteracy to graduation.