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The following people have been members of staff at the university: Lascelles Abercrombie , poet and literary critic (Professor of English literature, 1923–1929) [ 21 ] William Astbury , physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules (Lecturer/Reader in Textile Physics, 1928–1946 ...
Blue Plaques at Leeds University. St George's Field, part of the University of Leeds campus, is the former Woodhouse Cemetery, where is buried Pablo Fanque (William Darby), who was a black circus proprietor for 30 years during the Victorian period. [123] [124] Fanque's wife, Susannah Darby, is also buried at the cemetery. There is a monument ...
The School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) is part of the faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (ESSL) at the University of Leeds.The head of school is currently Professor Duncan McCargo, who recently replaced Professor Clive Jones.
Educated at Leeds Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford, he joined the staff at the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in the Department of Music in 1972. There he taught various composition, liturgy, directing, and score reading classes as well as co-founding the Leeds University Liturgical Choir .
The University of Leeds was one of the earliest British universities to establish a school of geography in 1919. Various types of geography, including commercial geography, had been taught at the Yorkshire College (which preceded the University of Leeds) and in the university economics department before 1919. This reflects an earlier and ...
Leeds University Union (LUU) is the representative body for the students at the University of Leeds, England. It is led by a group of student sabbatical officers known as the Student Executive, and supported by around 140 full-time staff members, with up to 500 student members of staff at peak times, as well as hundreds of dedicated volunteers.
An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa (Latin: 'for the sake of the honour') is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements (such as matriculation, residence, study and the passing of examinations).
University of Leeds Campus circa 1839 Grade II listed building (5 August 1976) 53°48'23.962"N, 1°33'36.144"W: 1375115: University of Leeds Staff Social Club (Q26655913) University of Leeds Campus 1849 Grade II listed building (11 September 1996) 53°48'27.565"N, 1°33'30.146"W: 1375094: Great Hall of the University of Leeds