Liberal Arts Northern Network

Founded in 2022 by the Universities of Leeds and Manchester, LANN (Liberal Arts Northern Network) fosters collaborative interdisciplinary education across institutions in the north of England.

Each year, we hold a Liberal Arts Conference for students from our LANN Universities. Our aim is to bring students together across institutional boundaries, to share learning, to foster a strong sense of Liberal Arts identity and community, and to think about shared values and transferable skills for students at University and beyond.

At these conferences, which rotate around the different LANN universities annually, students have a chance to think deeply about the value of their interdisciplinary education, and the skills that they are developing.  There are in-built networking opportunities for students (both formal and informal), chances to talk about their own work and interests, and opportunities to discover and celebrate the amazing range of things that Liberal Arts students do across each of the LANN Universities.