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Unique Global Health course launched

Published
6 August 2025
Categories
Health
Global

Applications are open for a unique Masters which takes a multi-faceted look at global health – and gives students the opportunity to collaborate with the World Health Organization.

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Protecting and preserving knowledge

Published
8 July 2025
Categories
Global
University

Libraries have a key role to play in fighting the misuse of information and helping people to connect in a digital age.

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Partnerships for growth in India

Published
1 July 2025
Categories
Global

The ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É has strengthened its presence in India with a series of collaborations across the country.

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ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É joins Coimbra Group

Published
23 June 2025
Categories
Global
University

The ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É is collaborating with universities across Europe to deliver impact for local and global communities.

Dr Bruno Cintra stands next to a tree in the Amazon. The darker shade on the bark reveals previous flood levels reached several metres in depth.

Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon

Published
17 June 2025
Categories
Global
Environment
Research

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle over the last 40 years which show that wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier.

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Methane project receives first post-Brexit Horizon grant

Published
17 June 2025
Categories
Environment
Global
Research

A €2.5m grant has been awarded to Professor Jan Selby by the European Research Council (ERC), the University’s first since the UK rejoined the EU’s Horizon research scheme post-Brexit.

Ella Butterfield

Global challenges tackled together

Published
11 June 2025
Categories
Global

Students have been tackling global issues without even leaving Leeds – thanks to international collaboration modules with Nagoya University in Japan.