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• Researcher receives top award for work on meteorites and Martian geology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/researcher-award-meteorites-mars-geology

  PhD student Francesca Willcocks' research has included the Winchcombe meteorite, the exploration of Gale Crater by NASA’s Curiosity Rover and preparations for Mars Sample Return

• Prolonged periods of sedentary time strongly associated with amount of fat around internal organs

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/prolonged-periods-of-sedentary-time-strongly-associated-with-amount-of-fat-around-internal-organs

  A team of researchers from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, UK – a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, our University and Loughborough University - has found new evidence to suggest that longer periods of sedentary time (defined as any sitting/reclining...

• Leicester students restore gravestone of 22-Year-Old Georgian

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/june/loddington-gravestone-archaeology-field-school

  Leicester students used digital imaging to restore an eroded 18th‑century gravestone, revealing the identity of 22‑year‑old Henry Reeve.

• University welcomes refugee and asylum seeker scholars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/sanctuary-welcome-event

  Leicester University welcomes refugee and asylum seeker scholars

• Leicester research now ranked Top 30 in the UK (Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021)

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/ref-2021

  The University of Leicester has made one of the biggest climbs of any UK university in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, published on Thursday.

• Leicester academic selected by Commission for Countering Extremism for research on the Far Right

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/09-commission-for-countering-extremism-papers

  The independent Commission for Countering Extremism has today (Tuesday 9 April) announced that Dr Chris Allen, Associate Professor in Hate Studies in the University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies, as one of the leading academics it has commissioned to write a research...

• BBC drama novelist residency set to inspire English students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/kit-de-waal

  Kit also had a message for existing and potential English students at the University. She said: “I hope I’m an inspiration to anyone who feels they may not belong, may not have what it takes, may not fit in. You do, and at the University of Leicester, I hope we can show you how.

• First glimpse into the core of a planet

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/exoplanet-core

  The surviving core of a planet has been discovered orbiting a distant star by a team of academics, including University of Leicester astronomers, offering the first ever glimpse inside of a planet.

• University of Law and University of Leicester partnership will expand access to professional legal training

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/university-law-university-leicester-partnership-expand-legal-training

  The University of Law (ULaw) and the University of Leicester are delighted to announce an exclusive strategic partnership that will bring sector-leading postgraduate legal training onto Leicester’s campus.

• Unearthing St Marys Abbey at the Yorkshire Museum

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/unearthing-st-marys-abbey-at-the-yorkshire-museum

  Yingqi Gao/Yorkshire Museum/St. Mary’s Abbey