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Welcome to the first newsletter of 2024, we are delighted to welcome our newest members who graduated in December to our community.

We hope you've had a great start to the New Year. Thank you to all of you who shared your favourite Leeds Trinity memories to help us overcome Blue Monday, we loved reading your comments. Oz Hardwick (Professor of Creative Writing) also shared a blog about resolutions and the power of art. Read more.

Wishing you every success in 2024

Get into teaching

Teaching is one of the most rewarding careers, offering the opportunity to change lives. And with improved government bursaries and scholarships, there’s never been a better time to get into teaching and a PGCE should be your next step.

Find out more by joining us at our PGCE Open Day on Saturday 10 February. Book your place.

Postgraduate degrees

Pursuing a postgraduate qualification is another fantastic way to increase your earning potential and expand your career opportunities. You can also take advantage of government-backed postgraduate loans, and alumni discounts reducing your course fees by up to 50%.

Visit our website to find your perfect course and join us on Wednesday 21 February for our Postgraduate Open Evening, where you can meet our course leaders and learn more about postgraduate study. Book now. 

Congratulations to author Jane Browne (MA Creative Writing, 2018) on recently winning The Golden Wizard Book Prize, which is seen as the world's most prestigious children's book awards programme that recognizes only the best children's literature.

Jane is currently offering the amazing opportunity for free author visits to schools in Yorkshire and online sessiosn for schools outside the region. Find out more.

Thank you to alumni Tom Jacques (Sport and Exercise Science, Sports Nutrition, 2022), Steve Bannister (Sport, Health, Exercise and Nutrition, 2010) and Conor Meese (PE and Sport Development 2016 and MA Sport Management, 2017) who returned to campus to speak at our recent Working in Sport and Wellbeing Conference.

Students were able to listen to a variety of speakers as well as connect with key industry professionals and organisations See more.

Our Student Recruitment Team are looking to highlight the success stories of recent graduates who attended local schools and colleges in Leeds, Bradford or Calderdale.

If you graduated between 2019-2022 and would like to share how your career has been shaped by your University experience, they'd love to hear from you. Take part. 

Our Law School will be hosting an event on Wednesday 13 March from 5.00pm at our Horsforth Campus. In advance of this event, we are interested in hearing from former students who either studied Law at Leeds Trninity or following study at Leeds Trinity went on to qualify and practice Law professionally.

If you would like to know  more about this event and how you can get involved, please email Helen Perkins.

Evie graduated from Primary Education in 2022 and took advantage of the alumni discount for her MA in Childhood and Education for which she graduared in 2023.

She also fully immersed herself in student life as an ambassador and as a Vice President and then President of the Cheerleading Club. She got to meet up with the former club members. She says: "This was a great way to make friends and I loved the social side of the club too. In 2023 I organised a fundraising event for the Titans where we welcomed back alumni, including those who formed the club."

In September 2023 Evie started her own year 4 class as a teacher at the school where she had worked in 2022 doing planning, preparation and assessment cover across a range of year groups.

Read Evie's alumni profile.