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• Leicester professor judges space travel competition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-professor-judges-space-travel-competition

  Professor Alan Wells, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the University’s Space Research Centre is playing a lead role in a global multi-million pound prize competition - Google Lunar XPRIZE - to land a robot on the moon.

• Leicester experts work with aspiring scientists from Girlguiding Leicestershire to bring science to life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-experts-work-with-aspiring-scientists-from-girlguiding-leicestershire-to-bring-science-to-life

  When the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at our University celebrated International Women’s Day, they didn’t know they would end up helping local girls to find out what a baby ladybird looks like up close.

• Suggested research topics

  https://le.ac.uk/english/study/research-degrees/application-process/research-topics

  Take a look at the suggestions for PhD projects that staff in English at the University of Leicester would be interested in supervising.

• University of Leicester Staff Blogs School of English New Voices Wagon Project Remarkable Experience

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/07/04/new-voices-wagon-project-remarkable-experience/

  Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on July 4, 2014    By Eshara Wijetunge During my final year as an undergraduate studying History of Art and English, I was involved in the New Voices Wagon Project ( NVWP ), a Leicester-based project that aims to...

• Irish Ambassador speaks at launch of book co-edited by Leicester academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/irish-ambassador-speaks-at-launch-of-book-co-edited-by-leicester-academic-1

  The Ambassador of Ireland in the United Kingdom, His Excellency Ambassador Dan Mulhall (pictured on the left), spoke at the launch of a new book co-edited by University of Leicester lecturer Dr Stephen Hopkins.

• New website highlights our local impact

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/new-csr-website-highlights-universitys-local-impact

  The University of Leicester contributes significantly to the city of Leicester, the surrounding county of Leicestershire and further afield.

• The project team

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/consuming-authenticities/the-project-team

  The project draws on academic expertise from several disciplines, including history, post-colonial literature, linguistics and anthropology, and a key partner, the People’s Collection Wales.

• Disputed Bodies: Narratives of Medical Research in Europe, c. 1940s to 2001

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/disputed-bodies

  WT096580MA, Large Programme Grant, Joint PI, Wellcome Trust funded from 2 March 2012 to 1st April 2018), a major new book and associated articles.

• Research suggests exercise counteracts sitting time

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/research-suggests-exercise-counteracts-sitting-time

  Office workers can stave off health problems associated with sitting down all day by regularly exercising, a new study from the Leicester Diabetes Centre has found.

• Giving refugees a voice in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/engagement/case-studies/csr/refugee-eltu

  In partnership with Leicester City of Sanctuary, our English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) offers free English classes to asylum seekers and refugees, open to people with all levels of English fluency.