Episode 8: Professor Sir Steve Jackson

Forever Leeds by Leeds Alumni

Jun 23, 202314:39Education

This week the University is celebrating its staff and alumni who have been named in the King’s Birthday Honours, and Biomedical scientist and Leeds alum Professor Steve Jackson is among them. He received a knighthood as...

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