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The White Rose University Consortium (White Rose) is a strategic partnership between 3 of the UK's leading research universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.

Our role is to ensure effective collaboration between the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.

We achieve our role by facilitating and supporting our partner universities, encouraging creativity and innovation to ensure that together they can secure funding and resources to pursue their research, teaching and enterprise initiatives.

In addition we work with a range of other regional and national bodies to drive key initiatives that benefit both the universities and encourage inward investment into the region

  • We aim to develop partnerships which deliver projects that raise the national and international profile of the Universities.

  • To mobilise our combined strength, capabilities and expertise to create funding opportunities for our partner institutions.

  • To seize the opportunities offered by the UK’s science and innovation agenda and establish White Rose as a key driver of regional economic development within a national and international context