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• Leicester grad part of team crowned champions of Britains first TV medical quiz show

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/leicester-grad-part-of-team-crowned-champions-of-britain2019s-first-tv-medical-quiz-show

  Will Manning and Jon O’Doherty, both Leicester graduates, and James Richmond were the chosen three to put their skills and knowledge to the test as part of BBC 2's Britain’s Best Junior Doctors last week.

• David Bradshaw Creative Writing Residency

  https://le.ac.uk/evelyn-waugh/david-bradshaw-residency

  Find out more about the David Bradshaw Creative Writing Residency and the collaboration with the Evelyn Waugh Complete Works project.

• NASA Mars Rover set for touchdown on Red Planet

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/mars-rover

  Space scientists around the world will hold their breath on Thursday as NASA’s latest mission to Mars attempts a daring landing on the Red Planet.

• Leicester astronomer pays tribute to ground-breaking Gaia mission

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/gaia-milky-way

  Mission to map our sky for over a decade includes University of Leicester astronomers

• Leicester space pioneers return to unveil new Space Research Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/space-research-centre

  Two of Leicester’s first space scientists have returned to open the region’s state-of-the-art Space Research Centre, more than 60 years on.

• Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library

  Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a star-studded panel discussion on Joe Orton’s 1969 play What the Butler Saw at the British Library on Tuesday 23 April 2019.

• Leicester research now ranked Top 30 in the UK (Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021)

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/ref-2021

  The University of Leicester has made one of the biggest climbs of any UK university in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, published on Thursday.

• New research highlights impact of COVID-19 pandemic on UK pilots

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/covid-pilots

  The University of Leicester’s Civil Safety and Security Unit has carried out a study highlighting the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on UK pilots.

• Anti Social Finance*

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/11/anti-social-finance/

  Posted by dharvie in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2015 Senior Lecturer in Finance and Political Economy, David Harvie , suggests the UK’s nascent social investment market is more a matter of imposing market discipline and less a matter of ‘doing well by doing good’.

• Air quality can be better for active commuters than drivers, research shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/commute-air-quality

  Their findings show that NO2 concentrations can be higher in car cabins (even electric car cabins) than alongside the road where people are walking and cycling.  Some PM2.5 can be removed, for example by pollen filters, meaning PM2.