Do you work in healthy ageing research? Are you interested in finding like-minded researchers or potential research partners? The @reimagineageing.bsky.social offers opportunities to meet with others who work in this broad and multifaceted area. Find out more: www.leeds.ac.uk/reimagine-ag...

Thanks to everyone who attended our Insight Series session this morning - particularly to our speaker Truzaar Dordi and everyone who contributed questions and comments! If you'd like to find out more about our upcoming sessions, please subscribe via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/o/horizons-i...

Episode 5 of our 'Edges of Extinction' podcast: 'A Shell like a Paperclip'. @jdroberts.bsky.social and @rachelgrandey.bsky.social talk to Lydia Woods about mass extinctions in the deep past – and the strange world of marine palaeontology. extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...

Join a webinar focused on mental health, led by a collaboration of WUN member university researchers: ‘Investing in mental health prevention and support'. Date & Location: 23 March 2026 via MS Teams. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ef8661... More information: wun.ac.uk/article/even...

Join Healthy Buildings Network Leeds for a one-day workshop exploring the multifaceted topic of indoor infection risk. 📅 Wednesday 22 April 🕤 9.30am - 4pm 🗺️ MALL, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds Register for your place: www.healthybuildingsnetwork.org/events/works...

There are still some places left for Tuesday's Insight Series session with Truzaar. For more details, and to register, visit the Eventbrite listing below 👇

PhD Funding! University of Leeds The School of History invites Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic scholars who wish to pursue a PhD to apply for the Access to Research Scholarship. Scholarship is open to those who are eligible to pay UK fees. phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/387-...

Our March newsletter is now out! Take a look to read more on our Global Crucible and Horizons Platform programmes, as well as a brief look at what's coming up over the next couple of months sway.cloud.microsoft/MyfpRDkbNnbC...

A few months ago, some of our team travelled to South Africa with a cohort of researchers for a week of interdisciplinary activity in Wits. In this new post, Samantha Aspinall reflects on the week, why it worked so well, and what we can take forward into our new programmes 👇

Two weeks until this Insight Series session. Places are filling up quickly! For more information and to register, see the post below 👇

Uni of Leeds researchers are helping to strengthen sanitation systems in sub‑Saharan Africa & South Asia. Part of the team is Priestley member Dr Paul Hutchings who says "Universities have an important role to play in supporting governments & development partners” climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/clean-w...

Reminder: You still have time to register for tomorrow's Polycrisis Network seminar with Yves Citton This seminar is free and open to all 👇

Join us for our March Insight Series: Leading Through Uncertainty, with @york.ac.uk's @truzaar.bsky.social 📅 Tuesday 10 March 🕚 11am - 12pm 🌐 Online 🌟 All welcome! For more information, and to register, please visit our Eventbrite listing👇

We’re working with @universityofleeds.bsky.social research professionals today in a workshop to develop interdisciplinary facilitation techniques. Looking forward to a day of insightful conversations!

❓If 70% of emissions come from supply chains, how do we actually start reducing them? This week, our Climate Evidence Unit ran a Leeds City Council workshop that brought sustainability & procurement colleagues together to unpack one of the biggest decarbonisation challenges: #Scope3 emissions. (1/5)

Our first newsletter of 2026 is out today! Take a look for: > a first look at our exciting new Headline Theme, launching in the Spring > Updates from some of our Challenge Networks > blogs from the past six weeks > events and dates for the diary Read more here 👇

Social cohesion can be extremely difficult to achieve in times of overlapping crises. Join Yves Citton for this seminar exploring how multi-perspectivist infrastructures can help peaceful coexistence in times of polycrises. 📅 Thurs 12 Feb 🕚 11am - 12pm (GMT) 🌐 Online Book your place 👇

In the spring, we'll be announcing the latest interdisciplinary projects supported through the Global Crucible pump-prime funding. If you'd like an insight into some of the projects we've supported through this programme, you can take a look at last year's projects here 👇

A reminder that this event is Tuesday! Come along (in person or online) if you're interested in: #Robotics #IndependentLiving #WellbeingTech #HealthyAgeing

Fantastic to see Daya, one of our recent Crucible participants, sharing his work in this area! Do take a look at this insightful session on circular farming 👇

For 3 years, Horizons Institute’s Head of Interdisciplinary Research Development Samantha Aspinall has been working with a team in UKRI to develop the CRCRM scheme. In this blog post, published late in 2025, Samantha shares reflections of working in this dynamic and boundary-breaking team 👇

This seminar is 2 weeks today 👇 Book your place if you're interested in how robotic technologies can improve our experience of older age. These seminars are open to anyone with an interest in healthy ageing - you do not have to be a University of Leeds colleague or a researcher to attend.

Many funding panels are now including the role of observers as part of their assessment processes. In this blog, @samaspinall.bsky.social reflects on what she has learnt through her experiences as an observer across a number of @ukri.org funding rounds 👇

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

A reminder that, if you're an academic at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, @sheffielduni.bsky.social or @york.ac.uk, you have just *ten days* to apply for this programme! More information and details to apply below 👇

How can robotics use inspiration from healthcare professionals to bring automation to assistive dressing? Join Dr Jihong Zhu for a hybrid @reimagineageing.bsky.social seminar exploring robotics and assistive technology. 📅 Tues 3 Feb 🕜1.30 - 3pm (GMT) Book your place via Eventbrite 👇

Following two years of working as a research manager in the Horizons Institute, Dave Riley has resumed his role in developing pedagogical research with LITE. In this new blog, Dave shares what he’s learned on the commonalities in approach that make both institutes successful in their own fields.

Happy New Year to our interdisciplinary community! We're an institute (based at @universityofleeds.bsky.social) working across the Higher Education sector to help develop interdisciplinary skills, connections and institutional capacities. Find out more about us here 👇

Is attending a world-leading biology conference on your new year to-do list? This April, the Astbury Conversation brings together expert researchers to explore 'Designing Biology' in its widest sense Full programme: lnkd.in/ebpG5Nfz #AstburyConvo26 #DesigningBiology @astburycentre.bsky.social

As part of the Polycrisis Network seed funding, Anne Luke collected data for a small project that would explore how children and young people in Eastern Cuba understand and experience crisis.

Join @reimagineageing.bsky.social for their lunchtime webinar, where Andrea Cereceres and Dr Sophia Amenyah will explore nutrition, diet and health in older adults. 📅 Weds 21 Jan 🕛 12 - 1pm (GMT) 🌐 Online 👇 Booking via Eventbrite

Do you want to start the year with a new opportunity? Are you a @universityofleeds.bsky.social colleague working in movement and physical activity research? Are you interested in co-leading an interdisciplinary network of researchers to help make connections across the field? Details here 👇

With news that UKRI's Cross Research Council Responsive Mode scheme being closed, @samaspinall.bsky.social shares her insights from working with the CRCRM team for the past three years in our latest blog post 👇

No newsletter from us in January, but ICYMI here's the last one of 2025 👇 Take a look for: * Crucible and Platform in South Africa * More about the re-launch of Leeds' Areas of Research Interest * The conclusion of our work with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture * New blogs and events

Reliable global data is essential in tackling some of the world's most pressing social and environmental issues, but too often this data is gathered with little consideration around access for communities local to its source. Here, SYNERGIA shares how they’re making data available and accessible:

We’re at our Interdisciplinary Leadership Programme residential with researchers from @uniofbradford.bsky.social and @universityofleeds.bsky.social today. Lots of great discussion about ideal projects already.

Our final newsletter of the year is now out! Take a look for: * Our activities in South Africa * An opportunity to learn more about the re-launch of Leeds' Areas of Research Interest * The conclusion of our work with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture * New blogs and events Find out more here 👇

Calling all researchers working in #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections or #NTDs? You can use our free tools, resources to support your work www.iddo.org/tools-and-re... #BeatNTDs

The Magnetism in Biomaterials (MagInBio) Network have recently funded four pump prime projects: 🔹 Oriented Bio-Inspired Templates - ORBIT 🔹 Next-generation magnetic immunoassays for ice-nucleating plant pathogens (MagINP) (1/4)

If you enjoyed this Insight Series, or missed the opportunity to join, you can find out more about the project at tonight's exhibition launch, 4 - 7pm, Space@Design, @universityofleeds.bsky.social campus

Most of our team and participants should be home after last week's Global Crucible and Horizons Platform activities in Johannesburg. It was a (very) busy week, and all our participants were brilliant throughout.

In their new blog, Dr Abi Rowson (Horizons Institute, University of Leeds) and Mike Eakins (Head of Policy, Leeds City Council) introduce the newly-refreshed Leeds City Council Areas of Research Interest for 2025/6, which align with the Leeds Ambitions. 👉 Find out more tinyurl.com/y5s34cdp

Today we’re starting our in-person Global Crucible lab, bringing researchers together from the Universities of Ghana, Leeds and Wits for a day of interdisciplinary collaboration. Thrilled to be able to do so in this stunning location in Muldersdrift, SA

Next week we're hosting our final in-person Global Crucible lab, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The in-person part of the programme is always an exciting opportunity to spark ideas and make connections. Last year, we captured this for participants to share their thoughts - take a look 👇

Did you miss last week's Insight Series on Art Science Dialogue? In this, Kelly Cumberland, Heiko Wurdak and Sabrina Samuel shared how they collaborated to create an exhibition of works reflecting on some of the often-overlooked elements of lab processes. You can watch this in full via our blog 👇

Do you work in the areas of magnetism and biomaterials? The Magnetism in Biomaterials (MagInBio) Network offer awards of up to £1,000 to fund travel to conferences or seminars, with the purpose of communicating work related to their research interests.

When you've got your interdisciplinary research project funded, how do you go about keeping everyone in the team on board? Read some excellent advice from Prof Paul Vickers in this blog post from earlier this year 👇

Trying to keep up with everything going on at #COP30? Follow @priestleycentre.bsky.social for daily updates on how @universityofleeds.bsky.social researchers are contributing, as well as lots of insights from the latest in climate research 👇

LSSI has evolved into Leeds Institute for Societal Futures! At the end of this year, the LSSI website will go offline. Please bookmark our new home: societal.leeds.ac.uk for updates on research, education, and impact. @universityofleeds.bsky.social #Leeds #SocietalFutures #society

We're honoured that @leverhulme.ac.uk chose to feature @extinctionleeds.bsky.social as part of their centenary. It's testament to our fantastic PGRs, including @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social and @kate-elspeth.bsky.social whose work is highlighted. Full video link in the post. #extinction #culture