University of Leeds

Stronger links between UK science and innovation and financial institutions will be forged at a new Innovation Hub in Leeds. The Hub, part of the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI), is situated in Nexus, the University…

Children learned how robot doctors could transform healthcare at this year’s Child Friendly Leeds Live event. University of Leeds researchers met hundreds of children and their parents at stalls in the city’s Millennium Square. A constant…

University of Leeds student Natasha Pickard has won a national Social Mobility Award for achieving outstanding academic success while living with mental illness. Natasha, who has just finished her second year studying Financial…

One of the biggest obstacles to the uptake of plant-based alternatives to meat is their very dry and astringent feel when they are eaten. Scientists, led by Professor Anwesha Sarkar  from the School of Food Science and Nutrition at Leeds,…

A new University of Leeds course will address a skills gap in the UK’s textile industry and ensure the future production of textiles is less harmful to our environment. The Textile Innovation and Sustainability BSc course will prepare…

An unusual case of a Long Covid patient’s legs turning blue after 10 minutes of standing highlights the need for greater awareness of this symptom among people with the condition, new research shows.The Lancet paper, authored by Dr Manoj…

Giant dust storms in the Gulf of Alaska can last for many days and send tonnes of fine sediment or silt into the atmosphere, and it is having an impact on the global climate system, say scientists. The storms are so extensive they can be…

Professor Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Leeds, will help set the future path for higher education following her appointment to an influential body.The International Higher Education Commission…

A new collaboration between researchers at the University of Leeds and the Leeds Health and Care Partnership will explore how best to support people with multiple long-term health conditions.People living with complex, long-term ill…

The University of Leeds has collaborated with a leading American institution on research that helps to crack the code that relates brain and behaviour.Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mapped how neurons across…