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Brownlees launch £5m triathlon and cycling facility

Brownlee Centre

A new £5m University of Leeds sports facility launches this week, named after its most successful sporting alumni. The Brownlee Centre, chosen in honour of Olympic heroes Alistair and Jonny, sits alongside a new 1 mile (1.6km) cycle circuit – one of the longest in the country – at the University’s Bodington Playing Fields in […]

A Golden Year for Scholar Gillian Finnerty

Sports Scholar Gillian Finnerty has had an incredibly busy year representing both The University of Leeds and Great Britain, all whilst undertaking her PhD in CDT Bioenergy. Gillian headed to Kazakhstan back in January 2017 for the World Winter Student Games, just a month after recovering from breaking her arm during training. The games is widely recognised as the biggest […]

Our sports facilities voted top five for student experience

The Edge

The University has moved up into the top five in this year’s Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey, from sixth position last year, to fourth this year. Every year, the Times Higher Education survey asks students across the UK to give their views about their university on a range of issues, from the quality of […]