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University of Leicester picks up two awards in VisitEnglands Awards for Excellence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/university-of-leicester-picks-up-two-awards-in-visitengland2019s-awards-for-excellence
The University of Leicester competed in national awards at the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2016 at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool where Attenborough Arts Centre and King Richard III Partnership won awards amongst the country’s elite tourism offers.
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New £2.9 million project to develop rehabilitation programme for people with multiple long-term conditions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/perform
Researchers in Leicester are developing a new programme to provide exercise-based rehabilitation to people living with multiple long-term health conditions.
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New understanding of ‘sociable’ slug behaviour calls for better pesticide targeting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/slugs
Experts from the University of Leicester have been hot on the slime trail of the grey field slug population thanks to innovative technology that can tag and track the behaviour of the invertebrates.
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People
https://le.ac.uk/modern-languages/people
Meet the Modern Languages at Leicester team. Browse our list of academic and professional services staff and find out how to get in touch via telephone and email.
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Award-winning US medical correspondent to appear at international empathy conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/global-empathy-conference
CBS News’ award-winning Chief Medical Correspondent Jonathan LaPook will be among the world-class speakers appearing at the Global Empathy in Healthcare Network Symposium in Leicester later this year.
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University of Leicester brings space back down to Earth for British Science Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/bsf-space
The sky’s the limit in Leicester as the University of Leicester brings some astronomical science to this week’s British Science Festival.
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Technology and protest
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/20/technology-and-protest/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2012 Tell Dave protests: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/britains-web-monitoring-plan-draws-comparisons-to-1984-and-kafka/2012/04/02/gIQAbNB5qS_blog.
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Aircraft keep tabs on the Amazons rising methane levels
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/greenhouse-gas-monitoring-aircraft-keep-tabs-on-the-amazon2019s-rising-methane-levels
Research led by the National Centre of Earth Observation is going to new heights in the atmosphere to get a better handle on methane emitted from wetlands in the Amazon.
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70th Anniversary of the United Nations (next year)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/70th-anniversary-of-the-united-nations-next-year/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 A new online exhibition is being created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library which celebrates 70 key documents in the history of the UN.
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Spanish Elections on Sunday
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/17/spanish-elections-on-sunday/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 17, 2015 A look forward at the possible outcome of Spain’s elections on Sunday. http://www.theguardian.