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Professor Wendy Stainton Rogers has been appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences and will be presenting her Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday 17 November 2010.
Ursula Philpot Senior associate lecturer in dietetics co- presents a four part series that highlights poor eating habits in children.
Dr Charikleia Sinani and Dr David Punt, of the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences have secured funding for research into physiotherapy.
Simon Robinson was invited to contribute to discussions on multiculturalism on Radio Five Live, and other stations round the country.
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Gavin Fairbairn, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, presented a paper internationally and is chairing two international conferences.
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Steve Robertson, Centre for Men's Health, was honoured to 'carry the lamp' in the 2011 Commemoration Service to celebrate the life and work of Florence Nightingale.
The Centre For Psychological Therapies held its Annual Conference for our students past, present and future on Tuesday 10 May at the Rose Bowl.
BSc(hons) Public Health Nutrition students have been promoting healthy eating messages over a week of events to staff, students and members of the public.
Gavin Fairbairn has just returned from Prague where he participated in an international conference on Spirituality in the 21st Century, with speakers from more than 20 countries.
Year 5 pupils from Seacroft Grange Primary School attended a fun day as part of National Science Week 2011 organised by the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences.
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Peace worker and Professor of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung, has delivered the 2011 Olof Palme Memorial Peace Lecture.
Children with hearing and visual impairments from across West Yorkshire are taking part in action-packed Adapted Adventure days.
A regional community health programme, reviewed and evaluated by Leeds Metropolitan University and funded by the Big Lottery, has received the Prime Minister's Big Society Award.
The School of Applied Global Ethics will be hosting a new unique summer school on how to understand and develop a non-violent social movement.
United Nations Trust Fund awarded to End Violence Against Women
Leeds Metropolitan Centre for Health Promotion Research appear in the November Altogether Better National Newsletter.
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Professor Gavin Fairbairn's recent translations and publications.
MSc Health Promotion students promoted healthy living in the Mall at City Campus on Wednesday 3 November.
Sunday saw an early start to the semester for the Year 2 BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Therapy who travelled up to the great North Run to support the participants of three charities.
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Professor Mark Johnson from the Centre for Pain Research held a TENS Study Day in the Rose Bowl on Thursday 27 January 2011.
The annual End of Course Conference for the MSc Occupational Therapy (Pre-registration) and MSc Physiotherapy (Pre-registration) took place on Tuesday 18 January.
On 5 November, Professor Gavin Fairbairn presented a paper entitled 'Who is responsible when 'attempted suicide' goes wrong?' at the first Global conference on Making Sense of Suicide.
Professor Alan White has joined some notable names in Men's Health magazine's Power 100 list.
The inaugural lecture of Visiting Professor Paul Marks took place on Wednesday 8 December at the Rose Bowl, City Campus.
The inaugural lecture of Visiting Professor Wendy Stainton Rogers took place on Wednesday 17 November at the Rose Bowl, City Campus.
Members of the Health Promotion Group attended the recent graduation of our Msc students in Public Health - Health Promotion & Environmental Health held at Chainama College, Zambia.
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A Health & Social Sciences academic recently joined colleagues at a one-day conference held at our sister university.
The Chinese Cultural Exchange took place on Thursday 11 November at the Lews Jones Suite, Headingley Carnegie Stadium.
Queen Square Wellness Centre held an Open Day for members of the Leeds Business Community on Thursday 20 January.
Students on the Biomedical Sciences courses completed their first piece of assessed work this week.
Professor Gavin Fairbairn of the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences has presented a workshop about making museums and art galleries accessible to people with learning disabilities.
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Students and graduates of the BA (Hons) Playwork course were recorded on film demonstrating their playwork practice for the recently completed DVD "Earth Play".
BSc (Hons) Public Health Nutrition Students delivered a poster presentation event on 30 November as part of their final year assessment.
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Two Faculty academics have spoken at a national education conference.
Applied Global Ethics, in association with Leeds City Council and Leeds Peacelink group, are hosting this year's Olof Palme Memorial Peace Lecture.
Award winning photo journalist, Sean Sutton, recently visited Leeds Met to talk about his powerful and intimate photography of communities who are recovering from war and conflict.
Applied Global Ethics student, Mia Tamarin, recently told her personal story of refusing compulsory conscription into the Israeli army and her consequent imprisonment.
Staff from Applied Global Ethics have contributed to the epic fourth volume of the encyclopaedia on peace published by Oxford University Press.
Leeds Met staff and leaders of the Leeds local Ethiopian community recently celebrated the success of the University's Engagement Ethiopia project.
The Coming Militarization of Climate Change was a recent workshop held at Leeds Met which explored the military and corporate responses to climate change and mass migration.
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Joanne Smith became Social Science's first student to complete her PhD in summer 2009
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10 Youth and Community students visited the Tamilnadu region of southern India.
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A series of events took place to commemorate the visit of Frederick Douglass to Leeds in 1859.
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Former Leeds Metropolitan University Youth and Community Work student, arranges a memorial to the homeless in Leeds.
Men's Health welcomed Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he visited Headingley Carnegie Stadium.
Final Year BSc (Hons) Public Health Nutrition and BSc (Hons) Dietetics students celebrated the end of the academic year with a poster display of their final year research projects.
Professor and Associate Dean from Manav Rachna International University visits the Faculty of Health.
Public Health Nutrition students work with children at the Batley Central Children's Centre
A group of level 2 BSc (Hons) Public Health Nutrition students spent time with shoppers at the St Johns Centre, Leeds, giving information and advice about iron deficiency anaemia.
Our Faculty of Health's new Biomedical Sciences laboratories have been officially opened.
Thirty-two Year 12 Health and Social Care students from Liverpool Community College visited the Faculty of Health.
The Sports Therapy Year 3 students formally presented their business ideas at Old Broadcasting House
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Primary school children had a Healthy experience as they took part in various interactive workshops for National Science Week.
A Rehabilitation Sciences academic delivered a workshop this week at one of the UK's largest disability conferences.
The Centre for Men's Health has successfully bid for a £197k Research for Patient Benefit programme grant from the National Institute for Health Research (NiHR).
Nursing students hopped on the Royal College of Nursing bus when it stopped for the day at Leeds Met Uni.
Nursing students raise awareness of Heartstart, teaching members of the public life saving skills.
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Bill McCarthy, Chief Executive of NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, officially opens the new laboratories.
A group of first year BSc Physiotherapy students have been busy raising hundreds of pounds for a local charity.
Ursula Philpot appears on channel 4's prime time TV programme 'My Big Fat Diet Show' this week. Providing consultation with people with specific food addictions.
This week saw the Faculty of Health's Student Achievement Week with Psychology, Rehabilitations Sciences and Nursing holding various events including poster conferences and oral presentations
Dr Catherine Sanderson, a principal lecturer in Health Sciences, has been awarded a National Teacher Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.
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The second year BSc (Hons) Public Health Nutrition delivered their Nutrition Intervention Programme.
Three students from the Faculty of Health & Social Sciences travelled to Kathmandu in Nepal to volunteer for three months with a local community organisation.
An international research team have had their research published in the premier medical journal The Lancet.
Students from the Faculty of Health have made the shortlist for this year's Occupational Health Awards.
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Forty Year 11 students from five schools in the region visited the Faculty of Health for an NHS Careers Focus Day.
Haamla, a local maternity team who have strong links with the Centre for Health Promotion Research, are celebrating after being given an award from the All-Party Parliamentary Group
Wayne Hemingway spoke about how housing developments are directly linked to problems in obesity, anti-social behaviour and youth crime.
Thirteen year 3 BSc (Hons) Sports & Exercise Therapy students were rewarded and acknowledged for their continuous efforts throughout this innovative and unique core sports therapy module.
If you are an Applicant holding an offer for one of our courses, you may receive an invitation from us to attend an Applicant Visit Day, so you can find out more about the course and University.
Congratulations to one of our second year Biomedical Sciences students, Jade Wallis, for her academic and personal achievements.
The BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy course run at the University has been ranked top of the National Student Survey for Physiotherapy across the UK.
Healthy final year project from Nutrition student takes off this week in the Food Courts at the University.
An interactive and interdisciplinary event with key note addresses from experienced and impressive home and international speakers plus innovations in sport and the Commonwealth Games
The Conference aims to promote research, education and training for students and professionals working with service users who are experiencing homelessness, rootlessness and social exclusion
Our free conference for students past, present and future.
Professor Alan White attended an evening celebration at No. 10 Downing Street.
The second Annual Children's Services Lecture was delivered in the Rosebowl by Professor Mike Stein, University of York.
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Students from the Faculty of Health participated in a homeless awareness day around the university on the 23 November.
Students and staff from the Centre for Pain Research held their annual Pain Awareness Day in the Rose Bowl on 6 November 2009.
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MSc Health Promotion students promoted healthy living in the Mall at Civic Quarter.
Laboratory manager gives advice to Leeds residents for reducing the spread of germs.
Tim Briggs has been elected as a vice-president of his professional body.
The Faculty of Health's Centre for Pain Research featured on the BBC's 'The One Show'.
Nursing students voice their experiences in the latest edition of the Nursing Standard.
Dr Jane South has led a team of researchers to identify ways in which lay people are involved in public health and what health services can do to recruit, develop and support them.
A Faculty of Health microbiologist has told the BBC that the city's current bin strike is posing a risk to public health.
