Blogs

After the Virus…

At some point the restrictions on business activity necessitated by COVID-19 will come to an end and life will begin to return to normal.

Written by Dr Andrew Gilliland

Home Based Learning and Stress: creating a balance

In these unprecedented times, we are all learning to get used to a new normal. Parents are reporting that (unsurprisingly) transposing mo...

Written by Dr Pam Jarvis

Tourism and hospitality amid COVID-19: Practical tips for navigating the crisis

It is clear we are in the midst of a really scary and unprecedented time. COVID-19 has managed to shake the travel, tourism and hospitali...

Written by Dr Katherine Lupton

Covid-19: resilience vs vulnerability

The world is in crisis and for the first time, all countries admit to a common enemy. The most vulnerable members of our globalised villa...

Written by Maya Vachkova

How students can get a better night’s sleep

We know that the right amount of sleep improves cognitive function, restores your energy levels and improves your focus and attention...

Written by Toby Chelms

Why sleep is important and how to get a good night’s sleep

We spend a third of our lives asleep, so sleep is important to us even if many do not know why. Generally speaking, sleep duration is...

Written by Dr James Jackson

Blowing on Embers

The question has become something of an in-joke amongst writers. But I refuse to deride it because it is a question that gets right to...

Written by John Irving Clarke

How the MA in Creative Writing helped me to get published

I have been writing poetry since I was a teenager but only seriously for about ten years and very seriously for the last five.

Written by Gill Lambert

Influential Women at Leeds Trinity University

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re championing some of the influential and strong women from across our institution.

Imagining the future through dystopian fiction

Fancy destroying the world and rebuilding it? That is the challenge any dystopian novelist takes on.

Written by Tim Murgatroyd

Climate Fiction: Surviving the Future

Albert Einstein famously said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” And it will be imagination that is called upon to tackle...

Written by Jane Browne

Supporting employee health and wellbeing at Leeds Trinity University

At our Staff Conference in January, we told everyone about our plans to keep our wellbeing offer under constant review to ensure that it...

Written by Darren Worsnop