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• Leicester film expert determines that James Bond would be celebrating his 100th birthday this year

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-film-expert-determines-that-james-bond-would-be-celebrating-his-100th-birthday-this-year

  2018 marks the 100th birthday of secret agent James Bond, according to Professor James Chapman from our School of Arts.

• Richard Jones

  https://le.ac.uk/people/richard-jones

  The academic profile of Dr Richard Jones, Associate Professor of Landscape History at University of Leicester

• Leicester professor judges space travel competition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-professor-judges-space-travel-competition

  Professor Alan Wells, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the University’s Space Research Centre is playing a lead role in a global multi-million pound prize competition - Google Lunar XPRIZE - to land a robot on the moon.

• Oxford Professor to explore the mystery of Alices Adventures in Wonderland on the 150th anniversary of its publication

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/oxford-professor-explores-the-mystery-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-on-the-150th-anniversary-of-its-publication

  On the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland award-winning biographer Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines the lure and lunacy of one of the most iconic children's stories of all time.

• Heritage panels telling history of Leicester to be installed around city

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/heritage-panels-telling-history-of-leicester-to-be-installed-around-city

  Colin Hyde at the East Midlands Oral History Archive has written the text for forty heritage panels that are being installed around Leicester.

• Expert opinions cover childbirth and the media Junos goals and Theresa May

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-childbirth-and-the-media-junos-goals-and-theresa-may

  Dr Ranjana Das from the Department of Media and Communication has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing why we need to look at childbirth and the media, and the 'Birth Stories' project she is involved in.

• Leicester research selected as top story by international news distribution platform

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/leicester-research-selected-as-top-story-by-international-news-distribution-platform

  Recent research into the technosphere by Professors Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Colin Waters from the Department of Geology has been selected by AlphaGalileo as the top English language research story in its December newsletter as part of the News Managers'...

• Jupiter's crowning glory

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/jupiter

  On 5 July 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered a polar orbit around Jupiter – 13 years after Leicester’s Professor Stan Cowley became attached to the project as Co-Investigator.

• Film screening and QA with Leverhulme Artist in Residence for International Womens Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/film-screening-and-q-a-with-leverhulme-artist-in-residence-for-international-womens-day

  As part of International Women’s Day at our University, Kajal Nisha Patel, Leverhulme Artist in Residence (2016), will be in conversation with Dr Melanie Kennedy from the University’s School of Media, Communication and Sociology.

• America’s complicated relationship with healthcare explored in new book

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/transformed-states

  The final book in Professor Martin Halliwell's series on healthcare in the United States will be published on 15 November 2024.