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.

Sustainability

Green Impact 2020 Awards and on to 2021!

Green Impact is an NUS behavioral changing scheme that we as a University have been a part of for 5 years, managed and organised by the Sustainability Team.

Written By

Gemma Read

Published on 27 May 2021

What is Green Impacts?

As mentioned by the Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Slee in a recent email, we are very proud to say that we had 8 completing teams in 2020. In this past year we have seen amazing work in the form of team projects, there have been hedgehog houses built both at homes and on campus, awareness raising events, and even a community cookbook.

The Team results can be seen below:

Team	Award Level
Estates	Silver
Distance Learning	Silver
Rose Bowl 148	Gold
Procurement	Platinum
Corporate Communications	Platinum
CARES Campus Services	Platinum
The Green Filmmakers	Platinum
Sport and Active Lifestyle	Platinum

These awards are all about tackling climate change by influencing changes in our day-to-day behaviours.

Professor Peter Slee Vice Chancellor

Green Impact 2020 Celebrations

These achievements were celebrated on Tuesday 25th May, via a virtual lunch ceremony, with a 3-course lunch (provided by Lean Lunch) sent to each attendees home, alongside a shampoo bar (Provided by Social Stories Club) and certificates sent to the team leaders homes. This event was organised and ran by the Sustainability Team, with opening words from Dr Duncan Sharp and the awards announced by Andy Allison.

Green Impact 2021, What's next?

We as an institute have evolved past the initial framework, which is amazing and shows the success of the scheme, the behavior change is happening, the tasks that were originally requested have now become second nature to the Leeds Beckett Culture. After the positive feedback from the projects, we have decided to undergo a total reform for the 2021 toolkit, which will be completely project based, allowing for individual interpretation from teams. This new toolkit will be even more engaging, and even more impactful than the way it has been previously ran, allowing for a real difference to be made.

We now call academics to join this scheme and show solidarity in the efforts to make changes for the better.

The Green Impact Awards provide an important platform to share, commit, and inspire future change which has never been more important and necessary

Dr Duncan Sharp Chair - Leeds Beckett Sustainability Advisory Group

How To Get Involved

If you are passionate about big changes in small steps, head to our Green Impacts Page to read more, or email G.Read@leedsbeckett.ac.uk with any questions or to register an interest.