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Open response to PETA UK Universities campaign
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/legislative-responsibilities/open-response
Read our open response to PETA UK in regards to their campaign against Universities using animals for research and experiments.
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Leicester sociologist named as UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship winner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/diego-garcia-rodriguez-ukri-future-leader-fellowship
The University of Leicester's Dr Diego García Rodríguez has been named as one of 77 talented early career researchers to receive funding from the UKRI's Future Leaders Fellowship.
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University of Leicester honours charity chief for raising the ambitions of hundreds of thousands of young people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/university-leicester-honours-charity-chief-raising-ambitions-hundreds-thousands-young-people
The co-founder of a social mobility charity devoted to raising young people’s educational aspirations has received an honorary award from the University of Leicester.
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Checklist aims to ensure clinical trials are inclusive of the wider population
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/inclusion-checklist-college-surgeons
Members of the public along with a team from the University of Leicester have come together to co-produce an Inclusion Checklist for Clinical Research.
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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.
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Esteemed Leicester University professor hands over reins of celebrated Space Research Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/space-research-centre-head
A professor who has been the driving force in advancing space research and exploration at the University of Leicester for more than four decades has handed over the reins of the newly named Space Projects and Instrumentation Group.
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Insights into safe drinking water to be presented by experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/insights-safe-drinking-water-workshop
Workshop will bring together experts from H2OforAll project with water treatment professionals, supported by University of Leicester team who are evaluating technologies to remove disinfection by-products from drinking water
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Trading places: University of Leicester scientist swaps roles with parliamentarian for Royal Society Pairing Scheme 2025
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/scientist-parliamentarian-royal-society-pairing-scheme
University of Leicester environmental health expert to spend next week working in Parliament
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Study at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand
https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/undergraduate/study-abroad/christchurch
Find out about how Geology students at the University of Leicester can take part in an exchange degree which involves spending the third year of a four-year MGeol degree at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Frederick and Mary Attenborough
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/frederick-and-mary
Frederick was our second Principal and under his leadership it expanded rapidly. He, and his wife Mary, lived on the campus with their sons Richard, David and John.