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The Alumni Office loves nothing more than welcoming back alumni, reminiscing about their time and showing them round campus. This month we welcomed back some of the Class of 1973 and we laughed for hours. 

It has been another busy month, and we were also delighted to welcome back alumni for the inaugural final year Degree Show for the Faculty of Business, Computing and Digital Industries.

Huge congratulations to Evie Hudson and the Leeds Trinity University Cheerleading Club for hosting a really successful Titans alumni day on 13 May, where over 20 members returned. The day consisted of a performance, quiz and raffle.

The original founders of the club, Emma and Christianne, returned and spoke about how they founded the club. Read more.

It was brilliant to welcome back Chloe Tear to campus this month; it was the first time since she graduated.

Chloe studied Psychology and Child Development and graduated in 2019. She is currently a Content Designer for Scope. She has been on The Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 list for the last two years.

Chloe was very excited about the arrival of her guide dog this month. During her visit she also got to catch up with former Students' Union President and current member of staff Charles Isherwood.

Professor Oz Hardwick will be co-hosting a session for this year’s Saudha International Literature Festival at Leeds Trinity on Thursday 22 June.

The evening’s highlight will be musical settings of works by one of the leading 20th-century Bengali poets, Kazi Nazrul Islam; one of the finest mystic poets of the 15th century from Banaras (India), Saint Kabir; and a remarkable metaphysical poet of the 18th century from Bengal, Lalon.

There will be a full supporting programme of spoken words by international poets as well as talks on traditional, new, and experimental literature from around the world. Find out more.

Congratulations to Katie Haseldine (MA Journalism, 2018), who won the gold award in the Grassroots category at the Radio Academy’s glittering ARIAS awards in London recently.

It recognised her work as a reporter-producer for BBC Radio Merseyside on United Against Knife Crime, a series which explored the devastation caused to the families of murder victims Ava White and Adam Ellison. Read more.

We are excited to announce that we have a new SLCN course starting in September 2023.

Our SLCN programme has been designed to meet the needs of the education and applied sector workforce working with children, young people and families who have additional needs in Speech Language and Communication Needs. Find out more. Please share this opportunity with your contacts and colleagues.

Congratulations and good luck to Hannah-Freya Blake (Doctor of philosophy PhD, Nineteenth-century Literature, 2021) who will be a special guest at Wordspace on Wednesday 7 June at The Hop Shack (Horsforth) to speak about her book Cake Craft. Book your place.

Hannah-Freya has achieved her lifelong dream: "Though the book has been out since the end of April, speaking to an audience will really bring it home that I've done it: I've become a novelist, just like I've wanted to do since I was 12. And I am determined it won't be my only novel!"

She wrote the first draft of Cake Craft during the first lockdown of the pandemic: "At the time I was feeling very isolated, as I lived alone, without even a cat for company." Read more.

Best of luck Hannah-Freya and we look forward to hearing about your future books!