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New funding to develop technology for first robots to weld in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/funding-technology-first-robots-weld-space
University of Leicester and welding specialist TWI Ltd collaborating on a robot-mounted arc-welding system designed to support in-space repair, joining and future orbital manufacturing
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University entrepreneurs win place on innovative VentureVersity accelerator programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/ventureversity-teams
Judges choose the 11 teams to join first VentureVersity Commercialisation Accelerator, turning academic ideas into reality. Businesses, students, academics and entrepreneurs have joined forces in first-of-its-kind collaboration to help bring more university spin outs to market.
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Jobs created and organisations helped to thrive thanks to social entrepreneur scheme spearheaded by University of Leicester collaboration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/jobs-created-social-entrepreneur-university-leicester
A growth and innovation programme delivered by the University of Leicester, in partnership with CASE and Community Enterprise Engine has created 19 jobs.
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Partnerships
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/partnerships
We work with local, national and international organisations to deliver effective results. NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) A £26.
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Emyr Evans
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2026/emyr-evans
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Crisis and Disaster Risk Management
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/crisis-and-disaster-risk-management
Selected publications 2025 Bryce, C. , Dowling, M., Long, S. & Wardman, J. K. (2025). Media amplification under the floodlight: Contextualising 20 years of US risk news. Risk Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.17701 Yeboah, R., Ferdous, L. T., Gerged, A. M.
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Revolutionary new treatment set to transform lives of severe asthma sufferers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/asthma
The future for people suffering from severe asthma is looking bright after a Leicester-based research team confirm the benefits of a revolutionary medicine, which has been recently approved for use in the UK
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Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching: Academic and staff blogs from the Uni
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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British-built satellite launches to map Earth’s forests in 3D for the first time with Leicester expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/british-satellite-launches-map-earths-forests-leicester
A satellite developed by British academics and engineers, including expertise from the University of Leicester, is set to become the first in the world to measure accurately the condition and carbon mass of the Earth’s forests from space.
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The Diasporas Projects
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/the-diasporas-projects
The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme was driven by eight linked projects incorporating some of the latest research in archaeology, genetics, history, linguistics, social psychology, and place-name studies.