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• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

  Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

• Viking figurines were ‘more than just jewellery’, and were used and handled in a variety of ways, including long-term curation, 'decapitation', and attached to Christian artefacts 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/viking-jewellery-mythology-silver-bronze

  Senior author Dr Christina Tsoraki, of the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester adds, "By studying the wear of the 'valkyrie' pendants -- the valkyries being female mythological beings that would bring slain warriors from the battlefield to...

• Woodland Adventures

  https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/primary-programmes/woodland-adventure

  Learn more about the Woodland Adventure programme that we offer to primary school children.

• DEFRA Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  https://le.ac.uk/clcr/research-projects/defra-greenhouse-gas-emissions

  This research project carried out by DEFRA will quantify greenhouse gas fluxes from fenland under different land use to derive recommendations for land management and climate mitigation policies.

• Pioneering technique could unlock targeted treatments for cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/hdac-cancer

  Leicester researchers have described application of a pioneering chemical technique which could unlock ground-breaking new treatments for cancer and other diseases.

• About the Institute

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/policy/people

  Learn more about the Institute for Policy and the people who work within it.

• Grayson Perry guest of honour at Centenary Alumni Celebration

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/grayson-perry

  Contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster Grayson Perry CBE will share his insight with Leicester alumni at a special event in celebration of the University’s Centenary this May.

• Research involving the use of animals

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/research/use-of-animals

  Get more information on the policy in place for the use of animals in research at the University of Leicester.

• Discovery of new 430 million-year-old fossils challenges our understanding of ancient molluscs

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/punk-emo

  Study involving University of Leicester scientist examines ‘exceptionally preserved’ soft tissues in fossils

• Award-winning TV space scientist explores Space Park Leicester’s latest innovations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/tv-space-scientist-maggie-space-park-leicester-innovations

  Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Chancellor of the University of Leicester, recently had an exclusive tour of its £100 million science and innovation park, Space Park Leicester