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Community playground is revitalised with a new coat of paint
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/adventure-playground
University of Leicester Vice Chancellor and President Professor Nishan Canagarajah was among a group of volunteers helping to breathe new life into Highfields Adventure Playground last week
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Study finds wage and employment freezes impact on morale
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/study-finds-wage-and-employment-freezes-impact-on-morale
Wage and employment freezes and other actions taken to combat recessions may compromise the positive effect that employee empowerment may have on staff morale and in turn performance.
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Lecture to discuss how sexual commerce has adapted to the digital age
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/how-sexual-commerce-has-adapted-to-the-digital-age
An exploration of how commercial sex in the Western world is mediated or performed through the internet and digital technologies forms part of a series of free seminars available for the public to attend through 2016/17.
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Leicester to hold photographic exhibition of womens involvement in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/leicester-to-hold-photographic-exhibition-of-womens-involvement-in-space
A free public exhibition of photographs which show how women have contributed to the space sector is being held at our University between 8 - 18 March.
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Maths Trail
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/primary/maths-trail
Learn more about the Maths Trail programme that we offer to primary school children.
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Lecturer on FT podcast discusses Galileo Brexit and space policy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/lecturer-on-ft-podcast-discusses-galileo-brexit-and-space-policy
Dr Bleddyn Bowen from HyPIR has featured as the guest on the Financial Times’ latest episode of their fortnightly podcast Brexit Unspun to discuss the recent events in space policy and Brexit negotiations, in light of Bleddyn’s singular expertise on the political and security...
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Author of Madame Doubtfire and Carnegie Medal winner Anne Fine to share what inspires her writing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/author-of-2018madame-doubtfire2019-and-carnegie-medal-winner-anne-fine-to-share-what-inspires-her-writing
Multi-award-winning author Anne Fine OBE will be visiting our University to speak on her long-standing career as a writer for all audiences during the Literary Leicester festival on 18 November.
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Leicester academic Professor Mark Jobling to chart the evolution of individual identification at Galton Institute conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-academic-professor-mark-jobling-to-chart-the-evolution-of-individual-identification-at-galton-institute-conference
Professor Mark Jobling from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology will be giving a talk at the Galton Institute conference on 15 November - charting the evolution of individual identification from its earliest inception via fingerprints in 1892, through to the...
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The key to Leicester’s economic future: First phase of Space Park Leicester is completed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/space-park-keys-handover
Grant Bourhill, Chief Executive of Space Park Leicester, said: “The global space sector is expanding significantly, with some forecasts predicting a $1 trillion industry by 2040.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.