We are hiring! Permanent lectureship for a Film Studies specialist in our wonderful School LCS Leeds Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds University of Leeds Come and join us in Leeds! It’s all happening up North these days 🎊

Amazing news for our Professor Prof Ingrid Sharp , who has been nominated as one of 400 feminist women from Leeds to be celebrated in a new public sculpture! What a wonderful honour and a crowning recognition of her decades championing feminist research. leeds-art.ac.uk/whats-happenin…

This Friday we're celebrating the excellent news that University of Leeds' Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures has been ranked the 51st best in the world for study and research in these subjects! ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanitie…

We are delighted to invite applications for the Leeds – Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellowship 2024-25. The deadline for applications is 31 May 2024. Please follow the link for more details on the Fellowship and how to apply ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/news/a…

Just 2 weeks to go now to apply for this!

Top role here within a truly wonderful, dynamic & friendly team 👀 ⬇️

Are you a researcher at the University of Leeds or University of Bradford?

Do you want to work with cultural partners, contribute to Bradford 2025, and be eligible for pump-prime funding?

Get involved in our interdisciplinary and collaborative sandpits 👇

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Are you an academic based in India and looking for short term fellowships in the UK? Are you also prepared to enjoy the beautiful north of England? Uni of Leeds might just have something for you to apply for!

PS. Bring a coat.

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Film we made in 2016, a short guide to the Hillsborough disaster and the inquest, which found that the 97 people were unlawfully killed due to South Yorkshire police gross negligence, and rejected the toxic police lies blaming Liverpool supporters.

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“A lot of young people are moving away from conventional ideas of education and the workforce to pursuing things we genuinely enjoy in life.
“We know what’s best for us – we’re willing to stand up and say ‘this is our future, we’re not going to allow our lives to be dictated’.”

I am greatly saddened to learn of the death of Prof. Francis O’Gorman. Scholar, writer, musician and a wonderfully kind, generous, loyal and supportive colleague. As Head of School of English - University of Leeds Francis contributed much to the creation of the (then) Faculty of Arts University of Leeds

After last night’s match I don’t fancy the chances of Barca or PSG against either of Real Madrid or City

Whether you deploy or decry league tables it’s still nice to be able to congratulate my various friends in Linguistics ⁦Lancaster University⁩ ⁦Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni⁩ . topuniversities.com/university-sub…

We are very excited to announce that on Thursday 2 May School of English - University of Leeds's Professor of Poetry Kimberly Campanello will deliver an innovative inaugural lecture-performance 'Words Change States: The Public Poet’. Follow the link for more details and free tickets ticketsource.co.uk/university-of-…

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The jaw-dropping mess of UK higher education is starkly revealed by a series of news stories all on the Times Higher Education website in the last week or so:

1.) There are job cuts right across the sector (44 universities and counting): timeshighereducation.com/news/portsmout…

A compelling picture here of the great work done by Anita Morris Associates for @Leeds_2023

ICYMI Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast

Enjoyed today’s running podcast: Ian Hislop traces aspects of British humour through the ages. Informative, great fun, and lots of original source material, particularly from the Medieval period.
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