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Changing the story

Published
Tuesday 8th March, 2022
Categories
Alumni

PR and Marketing Communications expert Annalise Coady has launched and transformed brands all around the world.

Annalise Coady headshot

Engineering quality of life for people with advanced cancers

Published
Friday 28th January, 2022
Categories
Working with business
Science
Technology
Health

A £7 million research project has been launched to develop a new imaging and keyhole surgery approach to the treatment of secondary bone tumours of the spine.

Visualisation of a vertebra damaged by a tumour

£3m test rig to spark innovation in UK nuclear industry

Published
Wednesday 17th November, 2021
Categories
Working with business
Technology

A test rig to help the nuclear industry design new reactors, decommission old ones and better dispose of waste from nuclear reprocessing is to be built at the University.

Inside a nuclear power plant

Developing unbreakable screens

Published
Friday 29th October, 2021
Categories
Global
Technology
Science

Cracked phone screens could become a thing of the past thanks to breakthrough research by a global team of scientists.

Examples of the fabricated glass composite shown under a UV light (black light), revealing the emission of bright and pure colours.

A physicist who revolutionised modern science

Published
Wednesday 13th October, 2021
Categories
Arts & Culture
Working with our region
Science

Light Night Leeds 2021 marks the start of a season of events to honour the work and achievements of physicist Sir William Henry Bragg.

Professor William Henry Bragg with an X-ray spectrometer

Speeding up development of health technologies

Published
Thursday 16th September, 2021
Categories
Working with business
Technology
Health

A centre to support the development of health technology has been launched by the University in partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

A researcher looks at a large screen showing how components in a device fit together

Northern Gritstone announces leadership team

Published
Thursday 8th July, 2021
Categories
Business & Economy
Working with business
University

Northern Gritstone, a new investment company founded by the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield, has appointed Lord Jim O’Neill as Non-Executive Chairman and Duncan Johnson as CEO.

An engineer and a technician working together on a drone in an office

Africa Day – celebrating partnerships across the continent

Published
Tuesday 25th May, 2021
Categories
Society & Politics
Health
Environment
Global

As the world marks Africa Day, the University celebrates its existing partnerships across the continent and looks forward to further collaboration as a key strategic aim for the future.

Northern universities launch new investment company

Published
Sunday 25th April, 2021
Categories
University
Business & Economy
Working with business

The Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield are launching a new investment company to help boost the commercialisation of university spinouts and start-ups in the North of England.

A scientist in the lab environment looking into a microscope.