Manage your preferences

The Leeds Beckett website is designed to enable you to manage your own privacy preferences. By clicking on 'Cookies' below you can manage what data the site collects about your browsing. This will only maintain if you are on your own device or using a synched version of your chosen browser. If you are using a shared or public machine without synching your browser then there is no need to change the preferences.

Our site is built with accessibility in mind and we seek to adhere to the WACG AA levels of compliance for digital accessibility. To support that we have provided instructions on managing animations below.

Cookies

Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies enable you to use all the different parts of leedsbeckett.ac.uk. Without them services that you have asked for cannot be provided. Necessary cookies can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help us understand how people are using our websites, so we can improve them and provide a better user experience. We also sometimes get our approved partner companies to analyse how people are using Leeds Beckett Websites and they may set their own analytical cookies in order to do this.
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies allow us to provide you with online adverts that are the most relevant and useful for you.
For more information please view our Privacy Policy

Animations & Interaction

The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
How do I turn off animations?

Chrome

Chrome users will need to use browser extensions. Animation Policy from Google will help you set your own preferences.

Microsoft Edge

There is currently no way to disable animations within Microsoft Edge. Users of Edge (Chromium) browser can install the Chrome extensions above and use them.

Internet Explorer

To stop animations on a single page you can just press the 'Esc' key. This will stop the animation on that page. If you wish to restart the animations you need to refresh the page. To permanently disable the playing of animated GIF images, open Internet Options > Advanced tab. Under the Multimedia section, uncheck the Play animations in webpage check-box, click Apply and Exit and then restart your computer.

Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

Stories

Jenni Rishworth - Sports Event Management, 2012

The 2018 Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast saw a number of our School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality Management alumni putting their knowledge and skills to use on the world stage.

Stories

Jenni Rishworth is one such former student. She worked as a Spectator Services Venue Manager after securing an MSc in Sports Event Management at Leeds Beckett in 2012.

Jenni said: “My role meant I oversaw all ‘Front of House’ Spectator areas at the Coomera Indoor Sport Centre.

“The venue hosted the Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics and the Netball semi-finals and final. I managed a team of 250 staff and volunteers and our main purpose was to ensure high standards of spectator experience for every single one of our guests.

“The venue capacity is just over 7,000 so by the end of competition we had welcomed just short of 100,000 spectators to the venue over 14 sessions.”

The experience Jenni gained while studying at Leeds Beckett helped to prepare her for this high-profile role.

Jenni said: “Whilst studying for a Master’s Degree in Sports Event Management I had the opportunity to work at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as on international and regional events held in Leeds.

“These fantastic opportunities gave me invaluable experience of large-scale events, enabled me to see how different teams within an event operate and helped me connect and build relationships with industry experts.”