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Former names | All Saints College Trinity College Leeds Trinity & All Saints |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1966 1980 – merger 2012 – university status |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
Academic affiliations | ACCU[1] Cathedrals Group MillionPlus |
| Chancellor | Deborah McAndrew |
| Vice-Chancellor | Charles Egbu |
| Students | 14,765 (2023/24)[2] |
| Undergraduates | 13,405 (2023/24)[2] |
| Postgraduates | 1,360 (2023/24)[2] |
| Location | ,, England 53°50′55″N1°38′53″W / 53.8486°N 1.6480°W /53.8486; -1.6480 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Website | leedstrinity |
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Leeds Trinity University is a public university inHorsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally established to provide qualified teachers to Catholic schools, it gradually expanded and now offers foundation, undergraduate, and postgraduate degrees in a range of humanities and social sciences.
Previously known asLeeds Trinity & All Saints, the institution became auniversity college in 2009 after gaining the right to award its own degrees, and was granted full university status in December 2012. The university is a member of theCathedrals Group and theAssociation of Catholic Colleges and Universities.
Leeds Trinity opened in 1966 as twoRoman Catholic teacher training colleges forYorkshire – Trinity College for women and All Saints College for men.[3] At the time there was a great demand for new teachers in Britain due to thepost-war baby boom.[3]
Trinity College was composed of three residential halls to accommodate the female students: Shrewsbury (named after the birthplace ofElizabeth Prout), Whitby (Saint Hilda, who was Abbess ofWhitby), and Norwich (Julian of Norwich).[4] Located near these halls was a convent occupied by theSisters of the Cross and Passion.[5] All Saints College, meanwhile, was built on the south side of the campus, with four halls constructed for male students: Fountains and Rievaulx (afterFountains andRievaulx Abbeys), St Albans (Alban), and Ripon (Wilfrid,Bishop of Ripon).[6]
Both colleges appointed separate principals: Augusta Maria, aManchester University physics graduate and former deputy head of a Grammar School, was put in charge of Trinity College, while Andrew Kean, a Deputy Director of the Leeds University Institute of Education, became the first principal of All Saints.[7]
The colleges merged in 1980 to form Trinity and All Saints College, with one principal appointed for the new unified college – biochemist Dr Mary Hallaway.[8]
In November 1970 Kean informed the governors that the colleges should diversify and offer other courses in order to survive – although the driving purpose of the institution would remain as preparing Catholic teachers for Catholic schools.[9] As a result, new academic divisions were introduced including Humanities, Modern Languages, Mathematics and Sciences and Social and Environmental Sciences, enabling students to specialise in another subject in addition to their teacher training.[10] ThePostgraduate Certificate in Education was introduced for prospective secondary school teachers.
After the merger in 1980, the college was forced to justify courses deemed uneconomical. Consequently, course content was modified and efforts made to increase student numbers without diluting the college's Catholic identity.[11] However, cuts still forced the closure of the Linguistic and Arts departments, with the Music, Science and Drama departments eventually meeting the same fate. Despite this student numbers gradually increased over the remainder of the decade.[12]
During the 1990s Trinity & All Saints once again found itself in challenging circumstances. It faced increased competition from newer universities such asLincoln,Huddersfield, andLeeds Metropolitan – all of which had been granted university status in 1992.[8] On top of this, thegovernment of John Major had continued a policy of spending reductions on smaller university colleges.[8] Nonetheless, academic provision was able to expand, particularly in Communications and Media, and by 1998 the college numbered nearly 2,000 undergraduates and 250 postgraduates.[8]
In 1991 Leeds Trinity was designated a college of theUniversity of Leeds, and established a formal accreditation agreement with the university in 2001. In 2009 Leeds Trinity gained taught degree awarding powers from thePrivy Council, and became a university college with the right to award its own degrees. In 2011 students at the new university college held the longest runningsit-in in the country as a protest against the national increase intuition fees.[13]
In November 2012, following the government's announcement that the qualifying threshold for university title will be lowered from 4,000 to 1,000 students, it was announced that it would be recommended to the Privy Council that 10 institutions,[14] including Leeds Trinity, should be granted university status. The change of title was made in December 2012.[15] In 2016 Leeds Trinity marked its 50th anniversary by holding a Mass atWestminster Cathedral.[16] A series of high-profile guest lectures was announced.[17] Among them wasNobel Peace Prize winnerMairead Maguire, who delivered a talk about her experiences duringThe Troubles.[18]
Leeds Trinity is a campus university located off Brownberrie Lane in Horsforth, close to the village ofRawdon, with an additional campus inLeeds city centre.[19] The main campus is 6 miles (10 km) from the city centre.Horsforth railway station is a 15-minute walk away, and trains into Leeds city centre also take 15 minutes. The city centre campus is just a few minutes' walk fromLeeds railway station.[19]
In 2009–10 the campus underwent major developments and refurbishment, most notable being the new student accommodation block All Saints Court, with 198 bedrooms.
There are eight Halls of Residence on campus at Leeds Trinity. These include All Saints Court, which is a £6m development of 198 bedrooms with ensuite and self-catering facilities that was opened in September 2010.[20]
Leeds Trinity's library is housed within the Andrew Kean Learning Centre and gives students access to over 500,000 electronic books and 115,000 print volumes, including a large classroom resources section to support students on teaching practice.[21] There are 24-hour facilities.
There is a fully equipped sports science laboratory and a separate nutrition and food preparation laboratory. Both offer facilities for physiology, fitness testing, sport psychology practicals, dietary analysis and practical work with food.
For Psychology students, there are a number of laboratories which include a Biopsychology and Psychophysiology Research Laboratory, a Human Assessment Laboratory, a Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, a Developmental / Social Psychology Laboratory and a Forensic Psychology Laboratory.[22]
Primary education classrooms have resources available for to practice with the equipment used in schools including interactive whiteboards, early years resources, ICT suites, art and DT resources.
Leeds Trinity's sports centre was refurbished and extended in 2007. Its indoor facilities include a sports hall, a fully fitted fitness suite with free weights area, two treatment rooms, a movement and spin studio, a gymnasium (incorporating dance studio facilities) and two squash courts.[23]
Leeds Trinity outdoor sports facilities include 3 full-size rugby/football pitches, 6 dedicated tennis courts, 2 multi-use hard courts and a running track.[23]
In 2012, Leeds Trinity opened a new 3G All Weather Pitch. The pitch is the latest generation of 3Gsynthetic turf accredited by FIFATM for football and the FIHTM forHockey.[23]
Leeds Trinity is an independent Roman Catholic foundation, and until earning the right to award its own degrees in 2009 was accredited by the University of Leeds.
Overall responsibility for the activities of Leeds Trinity University rests with itsBoard of Governors. Theex officio Chair of the Board is the Rt Revd.Marcus Stock,Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds.
The Board delegate the day-to-day management of Leeds Trinity to Professor Charles Egbu (Vice-Chancellor), who is advised by the Executive Team, consisting of Professor Malcolm Todd (Deputy Vice-Chancellor), Professor Catherine O'Connor (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Experience), Phill Dixon (Chief Operating Officer) and David Butcher (Director of Finance and University Secretary).
In addition the Board of Governors delegates oversight of the academic function of the university to the Academic Board. The Vice-Chancellor is anex officio member of the Board of Governors and the Chairperson of the Academic Board.
The university's Chancellor, installed on 15 June 2018, is actor and playwrightDeborah McAndrew.[24][25]
Leeds Trinity had 4,985 students in 2023/24, almost all of whom are full-time.[2] The ratio of male/female students is 35/65.[26]
A professional work placement is offered with every degree, through links Leeds Trinity maintains with local business, industry and schools.
Foundation year programs are available for prospective students who may not already hold the required qualifications for university study.[27] They are currently offered in Sport, Social Science, Law studies, and Computing.[27]
| National rankings | |
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| Complete (2026)[28] | 116 |
| Guardian (2026)[29] | 105 |
| Times / Sunday Times (2026)[30] | 112 |
In themain university ranking guides as of September 2024[update], Leeds Trinity was ranked outside the top 100 inThe Complete University Guide – being placed 108th in the country out of 131 listed institutions. It was rated somewhat higher inThe Guardian league table, placing 85th out of 121 institutions.
The university performed best inThe Times/The Sunday Times table, finishing equal 67th alongsideDe Montfort University inLeicester out of 129 listed institutions.[31] It is notable that Leeds Trinity is mainly a teaching institution and because of this has a low research output – contributing to a lower position in the major tables. In the 2014Research Excellence Framework it was ranked 145th out of 154 for research power, with only 20 research staff.[32]
The university has traditionally performed better in other criteria, such as teaching quality.[33] In the 2018 The Times/The Sunday Times University league table it was ranked in the top 10 for both teaching quality and student experience, and was ranked 39th for the percentage of students achieving either afirst or a2:1 during their degrees.[34] In 2016 overall satisfaction from students was 81% (National Student Survey 2016), with 100% satisfaction in some courses such as Business and Management, English and Media.[35]
Leeds Trinity is the home of a number of research centres and research projects.
Established in 1994, the LCVS is one of the longest-established and most activeVictorian Studies centres in Britain.[36] As well as sponsoring the publication of the Journal of Victorian Culture and the Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, it runs anMA in Victorian Studies, and sponsors a full programme of seminars, one day colloquia and residential conferences.[37]
The Schools History Project is a curriculum development project concerned with history education in the 13–16 age range. The Project holds an annual conference, sponsors in-service training, publishes a regular bulletin, and collaborates withJohn Murray Ltd in the publishing of materials to support the SHP curriculum.[38]
The Leeds Trinity Business Network is an opportunity for local businesses to network, raise profiles, and work together to support local business. Piloted in 2011, it currently has 80+ members.
Leeds Trinity is the current holder of theBBC North Education Partnership Achievement award, given in recognition of its 'inspirational' journalism teaching, and Leeds Trinity news trainees have won the Partnership's Journalism award in two years out of the preceding three.[39] Leeds Trinity works closely with the BBC to give its students access to a wide range of placements, challenges, workshops and other opportunities based atMediaCity in Salford and atBBC Yorkshire in Leeds. At the core of the Centre for Journalism's provision are extended periods of live and as-live newsroom operation, giving students a real understanding of working to deadline. Leeds Trinity also works closely with the commercial sector; the news editors ofRadio Aire,[40]Hallam FM,Capital FM (Yorkshire) andThe Pulse all trained at Leeds Trinity, as did correspondents and reporters withITN,Sky andITV Yorkshire.
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