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Check out this issue of 'Africa' that includes responses to Dr Jeremiah Arowosegbe's article "African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development" ⬇️
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Professor Simon Rofe discusses the political dimensions of the upcoming men’s FIFA World Cup on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Clip begins at 1:27:41.
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🎉Celebrating success at the ASPIRE Awards
Tanay Gandhi received the 'Teaching Track Rising Star Award' for his original and creative critical pedagogic practice
Madeleine Le Bourdon received the 'Scholarship Article of the Year Award' for this piece ➡️ shorturl.at/fLofg
Congratulations to both!
📰 New piece in The Conversation UK
Dr Anna Grimaldi answers questions about US–Cuba tensions and whether recent legal and political developments could signal a pathway toward escalation—including the possibility of military action.
Read the full article here ➡️ theconversation.com/is-the-us-pr...
We are excited to be hosting the CGSC 2026 conference today and tomorrow on campus! We have a plethora of fascinating talks underway and still to look forward to 🤓 See below for a link to the programme: drive.google.com/file/d/19OuN...
Check out this online article that discusses Dr Jeremiah Arowosegbe's article, 'African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development' ⬇️
africanarguments.org/2026/05/the-...
Read Dr Arowosegbe's original article here ⬇️
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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NEW BLOG: University of Leeds-Adelphi University COIL Exercise ctis.leeds.ac.uk/university-o...
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In an AI-driven world, why do human stories still matter? 🤖
The Timescapes Archive, led by Professor Kahryn Hughes, captures the depth and complexity of lived experience, offering insights that data alone can overlook.
🔗 Read more: essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/ne...
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✨ASPIRE Awards have been announced, well done to all our winners!
Read all about them here: www.aspirenetwork.uk/aspire-award...
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At a time when AI increasingly shapes how knowledge is organised, analysed, and acted upon, a University of Leeds resource offers the nuance, contradiction, and lived complexity of human existence.
In Femi Kayode’s thriller Lightseekers (2021) the protagonist Philip Taiwo investigates the brutal murder of three students in the fictional university town of Okriki in the Niger Delta. Woven into th...
The two-day CGSC 2026 conference on "New Ordering? World Politics and the Future of Global Challenges" started today with a welcome note from Professor Richard Beardsworth on multitude of global challenges illustrated by the conference programme
