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unusual facts about The University of Leeds



Simona Miculescu

Other professional training includes a Diplomatic Course at the Institute of International Relations at The University of Leeds, UK, and a Senior Executive Seminar at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (2002).


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Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth

In 1970, Boyle was awarded a life peerage as Baron Boyle of Handsworth, of Salehurst in the County of Sussex and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.

Feel Tank Chicago

Its founders are Lauren Berlant, an English professor at the University of Chicago who focuses on publics and affects; Vanalyne Green, a professor in Fine Art at the University of Leeds; Debbie Gould, a sociologist of political feelings at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Patten, a writer and video artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rebecca Zorach, an art historian at the University of Chicago.

Geoffrey Hill

Hill was awarded an honorary D.Litt. degree by the University of Leeds in 1988, the same year he received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award.

St James's University Hospital

All of the Hospital buildings except Chancellor's Wing are named after surrounding streets in the Leeds suburb of Harehills (Chancellor's Wing is named after the then Chancellor of the University of Leeds, HRH The Duchess of Kent, who opened the building in 1972).