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• Celebrate culture and creativity with Attenborough Arts Centre’s autumn programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/aa-autumn

  Highlights of its popular Creative Course programme include Captured on Canvas with painter Jemisha Maadhavji who was recently featured in BBC 1’s ‘Extraordinary Portraits’.

• Wind turbine remains may be among ‘most surprising’ fossils for far future generations, palaeontologists say

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/wind-turbine-remains-surprising-fossils-palaeontology

  University of Leicester palaeontologists publishing new book on technofossils suggest that wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle materials, may be among the most surprising fossils found by future palaeontologists

• Ministerial visit highlights efforts to enhance empathy in healthcare led by the University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/ministerial-visit

  The Minister for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health, has spent a morning speaking to University of Leicester experts about how empathy can help reduce health outcome disparities by ethnic groups

• Leicester’s role in creating a better future for Earth to be highlighted during COP30 climate conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/better-future-earth-cop30-climate-conference

  Space Park Leicester will host a special celebration on Wednesday 19 November with hands-on science and sustainability exhibits, Earth observation displays and demonstrations and creative and educational activities for all ages

• Events

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/structural-chemical-biology/events

  Learn more about the events held as part of the Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology at the University of Leicester.

• University of Sanctuary

  https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/about-us/university-of-sanctuary

  Explore the University of Sanctuary initiative in partnership with the English Language Teaching Unit

• Universitys travel plan praised as an exemplar

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/universitys-travel-plan-praised-as-an-exemplar

  The University of Leicester’s travel plan has now been published and has received high praise from the city council. The project led by Dr Sandra Lee from our Environment Team was described as being of ’a very high standard’ and ‘exemplary.

• Academic and adventurer describes climbing and cataloguing remote regions of the South American Andes mountains

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/academic-and-adventurer-describes-climbing-and-cataloguing-remote-regions-of-the-south-american-andes-mountains

  Dr Suzie Imber from the Department of Physics and Astronomy is giving a talk about a unique adventure which saw her scale and catalogue a remote corner of the Andes mountains.

• Research Staff and Early Career Researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/research/doctoral-college/research-staff

  Information on development opportunities for staff, engagement and impact, research effectiveness, quantitative skills, qualitative skills and supporting postgraduate researchers.

• Armed patrols in Leicester join the debate about policing in our city

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/armed-patrols-in-leicester-join-the-debate-about-policing-in-our-city

  Leicestershire police chief Simon Cole is to talk at a public event on 23 March about the force’s recent deployment of armed patrols in crowded places and whether this is a sign of things to come for people in Leicester.