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Two images side by side. Left: Mark Davis speaking at a conference behind a modern lecturn, gesturing with his hand. Right: Lucie Middlemiss sitting behind a table, with a laptop and glass of water on it.

Sustainability research team wins Best Paper Award

Professors Lucie Middlemiss and Mark Davis have been honoured with the Best Paper Award by Energy Research & Social Science for their groundbreaking research.

Left to right, Historian Dr Gabriel Kruell, Astronomer Professor Sergio Mendoza, Physicist Dr Oliver López-Corona from UNAM and ecologist Professor Jon Lovett by the Sun Stone in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia.

International collaboration explores sacred socio-ecological systems

A new interdisciplinary collaboration is taking shape between the School of Geography and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

The winning team with their oversized prize money cheques, standing in front of some banners advertising Ecotrophelia. The team, all wearing pink t-shirts, are joined by Leeds staff Amie Lister, Gleb Yakubov and Afreen Rahman. Everyone is smiling and look

Student Success at Ecotrophelia UK 2025

This month, two of our student teams were shortlisted and participated in the Ecotrophelia UK Competition 2025.

Community members celebrating potato diversity through Papa Watay, the tying of the potato spirit ceremony. Photograph: Phuyu Wayra © Roots Peru

Exploring Indigenous bioculture in Peru

Researcher Sarah Oakes writes about her interdisciplinary, participatory research investigating sociocultural potato knowledge among Quechua farmers in the Peruvian Andes.

The sea floor, with rocks on the seabed. The water is blue but littered with small particles of plastics and other matter.

Microplastics are pervasively buried in the deep sea

A new study reveals that microplastics are present in sediments throughout the Whittard Canyon – a submarine canyon off the coast of the UK.

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