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• Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE appointed Chancellor of the University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maggie-aderin-pocock

  Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, has joined the University of Leicester as its new Chancellor today (1 March).

• Researchers identify July 16 1945 as key time boundary in the history of the Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/researchers-identify-july-16-1945-as-key-time-boundary-in-the-history-of-the-earth

  Humans are having such a significant impact on the Earth that they are changing its geology, creating new and distinctive strata that will persist far into the future, according to Dr Jan Zalasiewicz and Professor Mark Williams from the Department of Geology.

• Jonathan Nichols

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/author/jdn4/

  Dr Nichols graduated from the University of Leicester in 1997 with a first class MPhys degree in Physics with Space Science and Technology, and went on to obtain a PhD from the University of Leicester in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. S. H. W.

• Brexit: How Does it Look from Gibraltar?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/04/28/brexit-how-does-it-look-from-gibraltar/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on April 28, 2016 In April 2015, in the run-up to the British general election, I predicted that , counter-intuitively, the best outcome for the UK overseas territory of Gibraltar might well be a Labour or Labour-SNP...

• Buried ‘without any pompe or solemne funeral…’

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/buried

  After the battle, Richard’s corpse was returned to Leicester, accompanied by Henry Tudor and the victorious Lancastrian army. By all accounts, Richard’s body was not treated well after the battle.

• Space Park Leicester launched by British astronaut Tim Peake

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/space-park-launch

  UK astronaut Tim Peake officially opened Leicester’s pioneering space research, innovation and teaching cluster at a special ceremony on Monday.

• An Academic Literacies Approach to Digital Literacies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/08/16/an-academic-literacies-approach-to-digital-literacies/

  Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on August 16, 2017   This is an account of my initial attempt to find learning theory to underpin and inform the development of our Digital Literacies framework and its...

• Our students take part in European Central Bank QA

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/our-students-take-part-in-european-central-bank-q-a

  Students on our School of Business Intermediate Macroeconomics 2 module led by Professor Panicos Demetriades, took part in a live Twitter Question and Answer session with The European Central Bank’s (ECB) Executive Board Member and Chief Economist Peter Praet on Thursday...

• Leicester researchers develop lifesaving kits for women in Asia at risk from post-abortion complications

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/leicester-lifesaving-abortion-kits-women-asia

  University of Leicester researchers are behind a drive to provide lifesaving kits for women in India and Bangladesh who are at risk from complications following unsafe abortions during disasters.

• Richard III geneticist to give Queens Lecture in Berlin

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/richard-iii-geneticist-to-give-queens-lecture-in-berlin

  Dr Turi King from our Department of Genetics and School of Archaeology and Ancient History will give this year's Queen's Lecture in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday 1 November.