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water@leeds hosted the first Working Group meeting for The Next Chapter Initiative on January 14th. The initiative led by Dr Paul Hutchings, water@leeds Associate Director for Impact and Dr Ruth Sylvester, Research Fellow Civil Engineering, will convene communities, water sector partners, and other stakeholders to explore alternative water futures for Yorkshire, making visible the trade-offs,...
To celebrate 2025 we created a review of some highlights of the year. We hope you enjoy reading: water@leeds Highlights 2025 Thank you to James McKay for his illustration of the water cycle.
A team of researchers from the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), led by Dr Markus Fraundorfer, have secured a funding bid entitled “Governing rivers as legal persons: Developing a kin-centric rights framework to address Brazil’s river crisis”. The project will receive funding from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (£993,924) and the São Paulo Research...
water@leeds are delighted to announce their key role in EIT Water, a new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) dedicated to water, marine and maritime ecosystems, funded by the European Institute of Technology (EIT). This was made possible through our international reputation for water excellence, water stakeholder curation and project co-design and our central role in the bid development. EIT water will tackle Europe’s most urgent water challenges including, scarcity, drought and flooding; ecosystem degradation in oceans, lakes and...
The UK Freshwater Quality Programme |Autumn 2025 newsletter is now published. The newsletter is produced by the Champion team based in water@leeds, University of Leeds. The newsletter provides updates from the Champion team and the five research projects within the programme, which each focus on different aspects of water quality. The Autumn newsletter includes highlights and progress from the 5 research programme...
Win up to £500 for your research project. Our PGR funding competition is currently open for applications, with a deadline of 5pm on 18 December 2025. We encourage applications from PhD candidates at the University of Leeds working on a water-related topic from any discipline. The award aims to provide additional funds to extend the...
We are delighted to congratulate Professor Julia Martin-Ortega, Associate Director for water@leeds, who has been appointed to Natural England's Science Advisory Committee (NESAC). NESAC provides high-quality independent scientific advice, challenge and review to Natural England’s Science, Evidence and Analysis functions and works to strengthen its relationship with the wider scientific community. On her appointment, Julia...
Lough Neagh - Microbial Source Tracking for Enhanced Environmental Analysis Funding available: up to £820,000 at 80% full economic cost (equivalent to £1,025,000 at FEC). Call opening: 20th October 2025 Call closing: 23:00 GMT, 1 December 2025 Funding source: The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) ...
A big thank you to all who came along to share their water research at our Annual Confluence on 16th October. With 30 presentations showing the breadth and depth of water research taking place across the University, there was a lot of energy in the room! We welcomed 80 delegates keen to discover potential collaborations...
water@leeds would like to invite you to engage in a voluntary activity where you reflect upon your experiences of allyship towards women working in Higher Education. This is a water@leeds Water Woman Award Initiative open to all male water@leeds colleagues (University of Leeds staff only). It stems from the water@leeds team being asked by male...