September 2026 – Page 5

Sheffield honours Cecil Paine, pioneer of penicillin’s first therapeutic use

A new plaque at the University of Sheffield's Jessop Building honours Cecil George Paine, the pathologist who in 1930 became the first person to successfully use penicillin to treat human infection.

September 7, 2026Sheffield

Business Featured West Yorkshire

Huddersfield launches AI-Ready Yorkshire to connect small business with AI expertise

A new University of Huddersfield programme, AI-Ready Yorkshire, will connect small and medium-sized businesses with AI students and graduates through at least 60 placements and traineeships over three years, launching on 23 September.

September 7, 2026Huddersfield

Global Consortium for Public Health Research (GCPHR) 4th Annual Conference.

East Yorkshire Wellbeing

Huddersfield hosts fourth global consortium for health research conference

More than 70 academics, researchers and policymakers from around the world gathered at the University of Huddersfield for the fourth annual Global Consortium for Public Health Research conference, focused on making global health research more equitable and inclusive.

September 7, 2026Huddersfield

Featured Theatre West Yorkshire

Leeds show The Easy Way Out turns personal crisis into gig theatre

Musician Eli Yim brings gig-theatre show The Easy Way Out to Leeds Carriageworks on 18 September, a piece built from autobiographical songs written before, during and after a serious mental health crisis.

September 7, 2026Leeds

Society West Yorkshire

Leeds Beckett Vice-Chancellor Peter Slee appointed Chair of Yorkshire Universities

Professor Peter Slee, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Beckett University, has been appointed Chair of Yorkshire Universities, succeeding Professor Charlie Jeffery as he moves to lead the University of Southampton.

September 5, 2026Leeds

Aji, co-founder of the Globally Trained Nurses Forum.

Featured Wellbeing West Yorkshire

Leeds nurse honoured for work supporting internationally trained NHS staff

Aji, co-founder of Leeds Teaching Hospitals' Globally Trained Nurses Forum, has won the trust's Leadership in Practice Award 2026, recognising a career that began in Kerala, India and now spans bereavement care and staff advocacy in Leeds.

September 3, 2026Leeds

‘Where Magic Grows’, a new exhibition at the Thackray Museum of Medicine.

Art Featured West Yorkshire

Leeds Arts graduates curate new plant folklore exhibition at Thackray Museum

Three recent Leeds Arts University graduates helped curate 'Where Magic Grows', a new interactive exhibition on plant folklore and healing at the Thackray Museum of Medicine, running until January 2027.

September 3, 2026Leeds

Dr Tamayo Gomez (left) with Alirio Gonzales (at front) from the T4TJ project in the field

Featured Science West Yorkshire

Huddersfield research helps locate suspected mass graves in Colombia

A University of Huddersfield research project is helping Colombian communities in the Caquetá region search for relatives who disappeared during the country's decades-long armed conflict, after identifying two suspected mass grave sites.

September 3, 2026Leeds

Tracking the drilling rig's voyage aboard the BBC Bangkok

Business Environment Featured

Powerful drilling rig sails towards York for four-kilometre geothermal well

A specialist drilling rig is sailing from Turkey to North East Lincolnshire ahead of a four-kilometre geothermal well at the University of York, part of the FutureSource project aimed at cutting the university's fossil fuel use.

September 3, 2026York

Featured Food & Drink Yorkshire

Yorkshire primary school meals system ‘fragmented’ with no central oversight, study finds

A University of York study of 1,771 Yorkshire primary schools has found school meal provision so fragmented that nutritional standards are effectively unmonitored, with just five commercial companies controlling most commercially catered schools.

September 3, 2026