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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 ...
This following is a current list of the chancellors, vice-chancellors and visitors of universities in the United Kingdom. The chancellor is the ceremonial head of a university, while the vice-chancellor is the chief academic officer and chief executive; [1] some universities have only a vice-chancellor but no chancellor. A few universities use ...
Leeds University Business School is situated on the western campus of the University of Leeds, located 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Leeds city centre. The Marks & Spencer company archive is also housed here, containing over 60,000 artefacts and pieces moved there in 2009 from London to Leeds, the birthplace of the company. Further buildings include ...
Luminate Education Group (formerly Leeds City College Group [1]) brings together a number of secondary, further and higher education institutions in Yorkshire, England. It was renamed from Leeds City College Group in December 2018 to better reflect its growing portfolio of institutions. [2] The chief executive of Luminate is Colin Booth. [3]
Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Anthony Carrigan (lecturer in postcolonial literature and cultures, 2013–16) Anastasios Christodoulou, Deputy Secretary of Leeds University and Foundation Secretary of the Open University; Pit Corder, professor and applied linguist (1961–1964)
The Institute for Transport Studies building. The Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) is a school within the Environment Faculty of the University of Leeds in the UK. The institute is one of the leading centres for teaching and research in transport in the United Kingdom, and attracts a number of students from outside the UK for its Masters and PhD programmes.
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. [1]
In the 1940s, the "Leeds Public Dispensary and Hospital" is recorded as sponsoring pharmaceutical research undertaken by the University of Leeds. [1] The Medical School's current premises, the Worsley Building, was designed by the Building Design Partnership [2] and officially opened by the Duke of Kent in March 1979. [3] Leeds School of ...