Transform SY (Powered by Entrepreneurial Spark)
January 2022
Transform SY (powered by Entrepreneurial Spark) – the virtual accelerator designed to transform
the entrepreneurial landscape in South Yorkshire – is starting this week.
Space Enterprise Lab now open for innovation
December 2021
Nexus at the University of Leeds is now home to a new hub for Space innovation: a Space Enterprise Lab. This is available to book for free for Space-related activities.
Space Hub Yorkshire Launches its Space Strategy
November 2021
Space Hub Yorkshire launched its space strategy at a roundtable discussion, hosted by Clarion Solicitors
SHY Manager wins fellowship to develop Space research translation programme
November 2021
Dr Ruth Amey, SHY Manager, has been awarded a Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship from Nexus to create a research translation programme for Space Hub Yorkshire
University of Leeds scientists name glacier in honour of Glasgow for COP26
November 2021
PhD student Heather Selley and SHY founder Anna Hogg named 9 glaciers in West Antarctica, following a study they did on retreating glaciers in this region.
Photo by Pierre Dutrieux.
We are hiring!
October 2021
Are you interested in developing a new Space cluster in Yorkshire?
University of Leeds joins SPRINT as an associate member
October 2021
SHY and SENSE Research Experience Placements Showcase Event
September 2021
Space Hub Yorkshire, collaborating with the SENSE Earth Observation CDT, rounded off the SHY Intern Network 2021 with a showcase event, where interns presented their research, conducted with various academic institutions, doctoral training programmes and industrial partners.
DASA Updates and Opportunities
August 2021
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) have recently released further updates to their current actions, including new cyber resilience funding opportunities and research priorities for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
Blasting Off To Space With LURA
August 2021
SHY spoke to two undergraduates at the University of Leeds who run and manage the Leeds University Rocketry Association (LURA) to learn more about this student-led organisation.
Be Curious Research Festival
July 2021
Students, academics and managers from the University of Leeds successfully ran their annual open research festival earlier this month, with interviews led by Jon Spooner from the Unlimited Space Agency.
SHY Intern Network Welcome Event
July 2021
SHY ran a virtual welcome event for undergraduate students doing research experience placements under the intern network programme
SHY Chair published in The Times
May 2021
Mandy Ridyard has been published in The Times discussing her aerospace company Produmax and industry in Yorkshire
Space industry symposium held by University of Leeds’ Earth Observation CDT
April 2021
SENSE, the Earth Observation Centre for Doctoral Training based at the University of Leeds holds a virtual industry symposium for academics and businesses interested in Space
SHY give Earth Observation talks to local schools
April 2021
PhD student Eva Zand gave a Space Hub Yorkshire outreach talk this month ‘How can we use Satellites for volcano monitoring?’
Space Hub Yorkshire Launches
March 2021
At the LEP’s West Yorkshire Innovation Festival, SHY ran a virtual event and officially launched itself as a hub.