Forthcoming Events

Come and release your ‘inner child’ with an hour of imaginative play with Sue Dominey – using miniatures, symbols and figurines on a paper mandala. It’s fun; a great way to relieve stress and improve emotional well-being. A creative workshop from the Counselling team to revive and restore your energy and focus.Contact Jen Partington to book.

Spend an hour with Janie Newton using soft pastels to create a piece of art that will make you feel good. Being creative can empower you and give you infinite satisfaction and a boost to your self-confidence. A creative workshop from the Counselling team to revive and restore your energy and focus. Contact Jen Partington to book.

Treat yourself to an hour out of your busy day, to slow down, touch base and bring your awareness into the present moment, through some mindful movements, breathing meditation, mindful eating and mindful walking with Cathy Theaker. Shift from ‘doing’ to ‘being’ for an hour. A creative workshop from the Counselling team to revive and restore your energy and focus. Contact Jen Partington to book.

Mike Lee (Leeds Met). A Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology Research event.

Book through iTrent self-service 

Regular Retail Family meeting from the Faraday Centre for Retail Excellence, all staff welcome.

This session launches the universities’ good practice guide for providing placements and showcases resources that will help you in finding, organising, keeping and managing course-based volunteering and work experience. A range of resources will be shown which can be used to help course teams administratively and which can help students to prepare for, learn from and reflect on their experiences. Book through iTrent.

Treat yourself to an hour out of your busy day, to slow down, touch base and bring your awareness into the present moment, through some mindful movements, breathing meditation, mindful eating and mindful walking.

Professor Cathy Barnes: ‘Retail Innovation: Improving the Consumer Experience’ & Guest Speaker: Gerald Jennings, book here.

Book through iTrent self-service 

Carnegie Research Seminar: Centre for Sport Performance. Contact Samantha Armitage.

ICRAC is an international committee of experts in robotics technology, arms control, international security, international humanitarian law, human rights law, and public campaigns, concerned about the pressing dangers that military robots pose to peace and international security and to civilians in war. Learn more about the ethics and practices of using non-human killing systems in war-come along to hear what some of the world’s experts have to say.

Book through iTrent self-service 

This session launches the universities’ good practice guide for providing placements and showcases resources that will help you in finding, organising, keeping and managing course-based volunteering and work experience. A range of resources will be shown which can be used to help course teams administratively and which can help students to prepare for, learn from and reflect on their experiences. Book through iTrent.

Professor Tony Bryant: writing journal articles, book chapters and conference papers.
A Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology event, RSVP Pip Trevorrow by 28 May.

The Community Health Educators at Healthy Living Network Leeds: philosophy and principals presented by Jon Hindley, Project Manager, HLN, Leeds. Aimed at practitioners, free of charge, everyone welcome.

Leeds Met hosts the brand new Carnegie Fun Run for students, staff and the community, in order to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Runners will be touring the scenic Headingley Campus and food, entertainment and prizes await those willing to take on the challenge. Entry is £10 and includes a goody bag and t-shirt! Enter here. 

An inspiring showcase of graduating students’ work in Contemporary Art Practices, Fine Art, Graphic Arts & Design, Design, Interior Architecture & Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Design, Garden Art & Design. RSVP to eventsteam@leedsmet.ac.uk.

Speaker: Professor Hugh Lauder, University of Bath, to register contact Samantha Armitage. Centre for Social and Educational Research Across the Life Course: Socially mobile students and a warm-hearted higher education system.

Treat yourself to an hour out of your busy day, to slow down, touch base and bring your awareness into the present moment, through some mindful movements, breathing meditation, mindful eating and mindful walking.

Beyond the Impasse of the Modern Moral Point of View: Towards an Ethical Marxism
RSVP eventsteam@leedsmet.ac.uk

Treat yourself to an hour out of your busy day, to slow down, touch base and bring your awareness into the present moment, through some mindful movements, breathing meditation, mindful eating and mindful walking.

A joint conference for postgraduate research students studying at our University and Sheffield Hallam University. Free to attend, registration required, contact researchonline@leedsmet.ac.uk

Hosted by the School of Languages. Click here for further information on the conference and abstract submission guidelines.

For further information about abstracts, please contact Dr Ivor Timmis.

For any other enquiries, please contact Angela Batty.

The theme for the day is 'The Experience of Change'.

Hannah Greatwood & Andy Smith from the Centre for Active Lifestyles present An Update of a Lifestyles Audit at a Local Secondary School. Contact Sam Armitage.

Delegates from the counselling, education and helping professions will focus on the impact of parenting on the student experience.

Do you have any questions about your professional development? Perhaps you want to find out about funding for a course, planning a team building event or attending the Managers' Toolkit sessions? A People Development Advisor will be available if you would like an informal discussion about your development.

PhD Student: Nehal Mahtab - 'Strategic Alignment of Corporate Decisions, Business Strategies and ICT Investment', Staff TBC.
A Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology event. RSVP Pip Trevorrow.

Current issues in rehabilitation with particular themes will be covered on each day. There will be free paper and poster sessions. Aimed at all clinicians and academics with an interest in rehabilitation. For information contact Sue Rooke or to register click here.

Regular Retail Family meeting from the Faraday Centre for Retail Excellence, all staff welcome.

Regular Retail Family meeting from the Faraday Centre for Retail Excellence, all staff welcome.

Babita Bhogal: General information, tips and techniques for research funding.
A Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology event. RSVP Pip Trevorrow.

For information about abstracts and arrangements for the publication of conference proceedings, please contact Dr Théophile Munyangeyo (LGW Conference Chair). For any other enquiries, please contact Angela Batty
For further information and to book, click here.

An interactive programme of workshops to help lecturers and learning support colleagues in their first months with the university. Lunch and refreshments provided. Book Here 

The Assimilate project is a three-year National Teaching Fellowship funded project investigating innovative assessment at Masters level. For any conference queries contact Georgi Sinclair. Register here to book your free place.

Presentation by a successfully completed candidate and a student currently in the process of a PhD by Creative Practice
A Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology event. RSVP Pip Trevorrow.

Regular Retail Family meeting from the Faraday Centre for Retail Excellence, all staff welcome.

Staff: Ben Dalton: 'Data is political'. PhD Student: Justin Morey - 'Digital Sampling - Affordances and Constraints and their influence on Creative Practice'.
A Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology event. RSVP Pip Trevorrow.

Regular Retail Family meeting from the Faraday Centre for Retail Excellence, all staff welcome.

Professor Eddie Halpin - Presentation by a successfully completed PhD by Published Works candidate.
A Faculty of Arts, Environment & Technology event. RSVP Pip Trevorrow.