Written by Melanie Giles2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the opening of the UK’s first ever national park, located on Manchester’s doorstep in the Peak District. Long renowned as the green lungs of its surrounding cities, its peaty upland mires now form a vital part...
Category: Environmental sustainability
Sustainability in SALC
Like many other parts of the university, the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is looking for ways to support teaching and learning about sustainability as well as thinking about how we make our business activities more sustainable. In the course of these...
When the World’s on Fire
The aims of this project include developing partnerships with creative or cultural organisations/practitioners such as Ebonit Sax Quartet, and creating new relationships with XR and its ally ActionNetwork. The project also seeks to extend their reach to Leeds through...
Recreating an Early Modern Beer Recipe
This project will introduce a dedicated week of activities relating to key themes in the social responsibility agenda within the level two undergraduate module HIST21152: The Stuff of History: Objects Across Borders, by inviting a professional brewer, for a period of...
DNAire pilot
The DNAire project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and run by the Aire Rivers Trust (ART) in collaboration with the Environment Agency (EA). It involves the construction of new fish passes on a series of former industrial weirs on the River Aire,...