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• Rise for Leicester to 35th in latest Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/times-rankings

  The University of Leicester is on the rise in the Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, which has ranked the University 35th amongst UK Higher Education institutions.

• Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fish-ph-fossils

  One of the finest examples of such fossils includes a Cretaceous-era octopus of the extinct genus Keuppia unearthed in Lebanon, estimated to be at least 94 million years old. Sarah Gabbott is a Professor of Palaeobiology and co-author of the paper.

• College Court wins national award for Best Customer Service

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/college-court-wins-national-award-for-best-customer-service

  College Court, the University’s conference centre and hotel, has been awarded the prestigious ‘Best Customer Service’ in the Academic Venue Awards hosted at the Queen Mary University of London on Wednesday 22nd November.

• Lord Sugar hails Leicester medic’s campaign to rename condition to avoid fatal mix-ups

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/diabetes-insipidus-avp-d-sugar

  A Leicester medic has successfully campaigned to change the name of a rare but potentially fatal condition, with the backing of businessman and TV personality Lord Sugar.

• Related Research

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/related-research

  The Impact of Diasporas research programme was related to a number of other projects within the University of Leicester and in other institutions including a variety of genealogical studies on the Isle of Man, Cotentin Peninsula, and the British Romany population.

• Collaborators and more projects

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/related-research/collaborators-and-other-projects

  The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme arises from our collective experience in many other research projects that have interrogated primary sources which reflect the identities of past human populations in the British Isles, Europe and beyond.

• Dialect in Diaspora: People and Places (PhD)

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/people-and-places

  Supervisor: Dr Jayne Carroll PhD Student: Eleanor Rye This project was carried out at The Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham as part of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme.

• Sky at Night scientist is unveiled as next University of Leicester Chancellor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/margaret-aderin

  Space scientist and presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, is to be installed as the new Chancellor of the University of Leicester.

• Applied Microeconomics

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/applied-microeconomics

  Lead: Professor Sergio Currarini The research interests of the Applied Microeconomics group span a wide range of areas, including labour, public, health, education, development, political economy, behavioural, and experimental.

• Collection development strategy 2022 - 2031

  https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/collection-development-strategy

  university library's 10 year collection development strategy including key priorities, kpi's, context and categorisation of collections