1802 results for 'press statements'
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- 29 May 2024
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- Health | Working with our region
The health of children and young people in the UK is getting worse, with children’s education, health and wellbeing affected by inactivity and unhealthy diets, new research has found.
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- 23 May 2024
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- Health | Coronavirus
A rare condition surged among previously unaffected groups of people during the COVID-19 pandemic and led to the deaths of nine patients, researchers say.
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- 23 May 2024
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- Health | Society & Politics | Research
School readiness at age 4-5 could help predict unemployment and education drop-out at age 16-17, according to a study led by the University of Leeds with Lancaster University.
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- 23 May 2024
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- Science | Research
Astronomers are thought to have discovered a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins: by using the wobbly aftermath from its stellar feasting.
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- 22 May 2024
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- University
A University of Leeds student has played a key role in the 80th anniversary D-day celebrations.
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- 22 May 2024
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- Arts & Culture
Changes to the definitions of conceptual words like ‘woke’ and ‘gaslighting’ are harming our ability to communicate and understand our experiences, a Leeds academic argues.
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- 21 May 2024
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- Environment | Health
The risk to public health from human faeces in our rivers and seas will increase without action to create a wastewater system fit for the future, according to a Leeds academic.
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- 21 May 2024
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- Society & Politics
A move by the Ministry of Defence to amend the records of LGBT service personnel unfairly discharged prior to 1967 has been welcomed by the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
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- 20 May 2024
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- Working with our region | Environment
A climate education hub that will help young people across all educational settings turn their sustainability ambitions into action will be hosted by the University of Leeds.
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- 16 May 2024
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- Arts & Culture
A poet who once wrote in secret has been awarded the University of Leeds Poetry Centre’s 2024 Brotherton Poetry Prize by a panel of judges including Poet Laureate and Professor, Simon Armitage.
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- 15 May 2024
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- Health | Society & Politics | Research
A report co-led by the University of Leeds calls for joined up support around schools and nurseries to reduce absences, tackle the impact of poverty and boost children’s readiness for the day.
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- 10 May 2024
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- Environment | Research
A new model for predicting the effects of climate change on malaria transmission in Africa could lead to more targeted interventions to control the disease according to a new study.
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- 10 May 2024
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- Environment
A multimillion-pound project to encourage people in Leeds to design and try an alternative to private vehicle ownership has been announced by researchers.
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- 9 May 2024
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- Science | Health
Patients’ risk of falling in the next 12 months could be predicted from their NHS data using a newly developed calculator.
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- 7 May 2024
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- University | Working with business
Students from Leeds University Business School (LUBS) showed off their entrepreneurial spirit as they pitched business ideas to industry experts in the LUBS Entrepreneur Award 2024.