In light of celebrations for International Women’s Day on the 8th March, when the phenomenal achievements made by women in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) are ever so briefly recognised and […]
Professor Dame Jane Francis announced as new Chancellor
Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Professor Dame Jane Francis, has been announced as the new Chancellor of the University of Leeds. She succeeds Melvyn Bragg who stepped down this year, after 17 years in […]
Leeds on Film: “proof that student life truly has not changed much in 30 years”
The Yorkshire Film Archive are a charity who are in possession of over 50,000 professional and amateur films. They have a huge variety of films which together document over 120 years of life in the […]
In The Middle with Finuala Deazy
“Most English Literature students tend to be enamoured with the written word!” jokes Finuala Deazy, after I asked when it was that she realised she wanted to write. Speaking to the recent winner of the […]
Simon Armitage Joins School of English
Simon Armitage, one of the UK’s leading contemporary poets, has just joined the staffing team at the University of Leeds, School of English. Some of his multi-award winning poetry collections include Out of the Blue […]
Music | Galaxians Interview at Beacons Festival 2014
What’ve you been up to so far? Matt: Just mooching about really. Whenever I come to Beacons there are so many people that I know, sometimes people that I haven’t seen for ages, and I […]
The Interview: Kudos TV's Jane Featherstone
Kudos TV’s Jane Featherstone: “Fearlessness is needed to break the mould”. Lucy Holden gets thirty minutes with Jane Featherstone, to talk Spooks, life at Leeds in the 70s and how to drink Paul Gascoigne under […]