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Supporting entrepreneurs to thrive

Published
20 October 2025
Categories
Business & Economy

Entrepreneurs behind some of Yorkshire’s most promising early stage companies are receiving coaching and development support to help them grow.

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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.

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
Categories
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.

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Leeds Digital Festival 2022

Published
20 September 2022
Categories
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.

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.

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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.

Aerial view of Leeds City Region

Inspiring innovation on an international stage

Published
24 January 2020
Categories
University

Leeds and the City Region takes its place on the international stage this January, with visitors from across the world seeing first-hand how Leeds inspires innovation.

Student using a virtual reality headset

Immersive technologies become the new reality at Leeds

Published
13 June 2019
Categories
Technology | University

Virtual reality (VR) is becoming the new normal at the University of Leeds, as staff and students working in engineering, arts, humanities, social sciences and health research embrace the technology.

A performer wearing a colourful carnival costume dances at Light Night Leeds 2025.

Illuminating ideas take over campus

Published
6 October 2026
Categories
Working with our region | Research | Arts & Culture

From galaxies far away to the growing forest at Gair Wood, research-inspired artworks and performances are taking over campus for Light Night Leeds.

Crew lowering a scientific instrument into the sea from a research ship.

Expedition examines carbon impact of bottom trawling

Published
17 September 2026
Categories
Environment | Research

Leeds researchers have played a key role in a pioneering study in the Irish Sea. It aims to address critical evidence gaps on the impact of bottom trawling on seabed carbon storage.

The Business Manager and the Patient Navigator at The Light Surgery in Leeds sit on reception and chat to each other.

AI researchers enhance healthcare

Published
7 September 2026
Categories
Working with our region

Two PhD researchers have helped GPs and urgent care centres drive better engagement with patients.

Renita Bharatsingh showcasing her project with a surgical robotics to the High Commissioner of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Professor Kevin Morris and Angela St.Denis and a hybrid online audience.

High Praise for Caribbean Robotics Programme

Published
7 September 2026
Categories
Global | Research | Health | Science

A Caribbean-led programme developing the region’s next generation of surgical robotics and healthcare AI researchers has completed its largest programme to date at the University of Leeds.