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• University News Centre scores four-in-a-row

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/university-news-centre-scores-four-in-a-row

  Our University's News Centre has received four awards within the space of three months, recognising a range of successes in a number of significant areas.

• Leicester leads report into stillbirth and neonatal death rates in the UK

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-leads-report-into-stillbirth-and-neonatal-death-rates-in-the-uk

  A research team led from the University of Leicester has identified large differences across the UK in the numbers and rates of babies who die, even after taking account of known factors that influence the rate of death such as poverty, mother’s age and ethnicity.

• Human Rights Law

  https://le.ac.uk/law/research/research-themes/human-rights-law

  We research and consider all aspects of the law relating to human rights, at the domestic, European and international levels.

• EarthSense partnership maps clean air cycle routes in Britains cities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/earthsense-partnership-maps-city-clean-air-cycle-routes-in-britains-cities

  A project combining Ordnance Survey (OS) geospatial data with real-time air quality data from EarthSense Systems is set to highlight clean cycle routes in Britain’s cities. EarthSense Systems is a joint venture between aerial mapping company Bluesky and our University.

• Projects

  https://le.ac.uk/library/about/projects

  The Library is currently involved in two National Lottery Heritage Fund projects being led by our Archives and Special Collections team. Our History and Unlocking our Sound Heritage in partnership with the British Library.

• Five things you probably didn’t know about nuclear weapons

  https://le.ac.uk/hypir/subject-tasters/nuclear-weapons

  Professor Andrew Futter, Associate Professor of International Politics, tells us things we probably didn’t know about nuclear weapons.

• Funny bones Richard III genealogist crowned winner of comedy challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/funny-bones-richard-iii-genealogist-crowned-winner-of-comedy-challenge

  Our very own Professor Kevin Schürer (pictured) has been crowned the winner of the 2016 Stand Up Challenge, held at Leicester Racecourse on Wednesday night.

• Department of Chemistry strengthens links with collaborators in China

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/department-of-chemistry-strengthens-links-with-collaborators-in-china

  Links between our University and a university in China have been strengthened with a new agreement to encourage the exchange of students and academics.

• International conference tackles womens sexual and reproductive health during humanitarian crisis

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/international-conference-tackles-womens-sexual-and-reproductive-health-during-humanitarian-crisis

  A Leicester academic has represented her research on sexual and reproductive health protection for women at an international event in New Delhi attended by 4,000 participants and inaugurated by the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.

• St Marys University ViceChancellor to give Chaplaincy Lecture in silver jubilee year

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/st-marys-university-vice-chancellor-to-give-chaplaincy-lecture-in-silver-jubilee-year

  British diplomat and academic Francis Campbell will deliver this year’s Chaplaincy Lecture.