Welcome The University, established in 1904, is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK. We are renowned globally for the quality of our education and research. The strength of our academic expertise combined with the breadth of disciplines we cover, provides a wealth of opportunities, and has a real cultural, economic, societal, and environmental impact. It is an exciting time to join the University as Professor Simone Buitendijk became the new Vice-Chancellor in September 2020 and a new institutional strategy has recently been launched. https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/418/vision_and_ strategy_2020-30 The University strives to achieve academic excellence within an ethical framework informed by our values of integrity, equality and inclusion, community, and professionalism. Leeds is truly a community, with more than 38,000 students from 170 different countries, over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities and we are in touch with more than 281,000 alumni in 190 different countries. A member of the Russell Group of universities, we are one of the UK’s top ten research institutions and one of the UK’s most prestigious and diverse universities.
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