# Global engagement

**Source**: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/global-engagement
**Parent**: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/about

## Collaborate with us

- ### [Education opportunities](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/global-engagement/doc/global-education-opportunities)

  We partner with institutions around the world to deliver joint teaching and collaborative awards in a wide range of subject areas.
- ### [Strategic partners](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/global-engagement-strategic-partners)

  We have strategic partnerships with institutions across China, Germany and South Africa to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals, solve global challenges, and reduce inequality.

## Our global reputation

> **Top 100**
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> in the world

> **123rd**
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> in the world

## Networks and mobility schemes

- ### [Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)](https://wun.ac.uk/)

  We are a founding member of the WUN, 24-research-led universities collaborating on research, postgraduate study and continuing professional development.
- ### [Coimbra Group](https://www.coimbra-group.eu/)

  We are a member of the Coimbra Group, a network of long-established European universities dedicated to promoting collaboration in research, education, and policy development across Europe.
- ### [North Sea University Partnership (NSUP)](https://nsup.webspace.durham.ac.uk/)

  We are a founding member of NSUP, a consortium of eight UK and Norwegian universities that strengthens ties between the two countries and drives collaboration on shared challenges.
- ### [Research and Education Network for Knowledge Economy Initiatives (RENKEI)](https://www.britishcouncil.jp/en/programmes/higher-education/university-industry-partnership/renkei)

  We are part of RENKEI, a partnership between universities in the UK and Japan to advance knowledge exchange.
- ### [UK-Jiangsu 2020 (China) World Class Universities Consortium](https://ukjs2020.com/)

  We are part of the UK-Jiangsu 2020 (China) World Class Universities Consortium, to drive innovation, develop international talent and bring together universities in the UK and Jiangsu.
- ### [Cheney Fellowship Scheme](https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/a-world-of-opportunity/index.html)

  The Cheney Fellowship Scheme supports outstanding overseas researchers to conduct research at Leeds.

## Opportunities for students

Our students can take part in a wide range of international experiences to enhance their employability, studies and skills.

Our opportunities for full-time undergraduate students include:

- [studying abroad](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduate-student-opportunities/doc/enrichment-study-abroad) in destinations including Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, South Africa and Latin America
- overseas field trips, work placements, volunteering and research exchanges
- leadership programmes, including our [Leeds to South Korea Leadership programme](https://students.leeds.ac.uk/leadership-programmes/doc/leeds-kaist)
- [Leeds International Summer School](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-international-summer-school) and support for [incoming study abroad students](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/international-exchange-and-study-abroad)
- [English language courses for international students](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/language-centre) accredited by the British Council.

## Our global research

- ### [Tackling antimicrobial resistance in dentistry at its root](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/global-engagement/dir-record/profiles/23748/tackling-antimicrobial-resistance-in-dentistry-at-its-root)

  A team from Leeds School of Dentistry is pulling together an international collaborative effort with universities in Brazil and Egypt to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
- ### [Understanding the vegetation of the dry tropics](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-record/23765/mapping-carbon-in-the-dry-tropics)

  A project that spans continents is developing the first systematic network of observation plots in the dry tropics to understand how vegetation in these environments is changing due to climate change.
- ### [Creating a drought to predict the Amazon 'tipping point'](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-record/22847/creating-a-drought-to-predict-the-amazon-tipping-point)

  An international research project in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is underway, exploring the effects of extreme drought to identify how to protect forests in the face of climate change.
- ### [Turning a pest into an opportunity](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-record/22883/turning-a-pest-into-an-opportunity)

  Research in Uganda is exploring how an invasive species of water plant can be turned into biogas for cooking.
- ### [Forging collaboration through snow and ice](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-record/22842/forging-collaboration-through-snow-and-ice)

  Next year, a team of scientists from Nepal, the UK and Norway will head to the notorious Khumbu Icefall, to drill into and take the temperature of the glacier at over 6000m altitude.
- ### [Corals, communities and climate change](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-record/22816/corals-communities-and-climate-change)

  An international research project is examining which coral reefs are proving more resilient than others to the effects of a warmer and more acidic ocean caused by climate change.
- ### [Keyhole surgery technology and training to reduce inequalities in healthcare](https://www.leeds.ac.uk/global/dir-record/profiles/21752/keyhole-surgery-technology-and-training-to-reduce-inequalities-in-healthcare)

  A team of surgeons, engineers and designers have designed a technology to make it easier to carry out abdominal keyhole surgery in remote and low resource locations.