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• Teacher and Adviser Conference 2026 – what’s on

  https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/teachers/teacher-adviser-conference/whats-on

  View the programme for the Teacher and Advisor conference, taking place at the University of Leicester.

• Leicester’s role in historic Mars mission revealed 20 years on

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/beagle-2-talk

  The history of the Beagle 2 mission to mars is recounted by the University of Leicester's Professor Mark Sims, who served as Mission Manager

• Oral history: Women’s Liberation Movement

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/oral-history-womens-liberation-movement/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Recordings of 14 interviews done to mark the 50th anniversary of Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in 2020.

• New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/parkinsons-robot

  Parkinson’s disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in part of the brain called the substantia nigra. As a result, dopamine – a chemical that helps to regulate movement of the body – drops.

• Women’s rights in the Arab world

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/womens-rights-in-the-arab-world/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Women’s rights in the Arab world. Thomson Reuters Foundation has published its third annual poll of gender experts, focusing on women’s rights in Arab League states.

• Women’s roles in peace processes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/womens-roles-in-peace-processes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 A great site from the  Council on Foreign Relations which has data on female participation from 1990 onwards.

• Bloomberg: China’s Trade Anomalies and Economic Growth

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/07/bloomberg-chinas-trade-anomalies-and-economic-growth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 7, 2013 China’s customs administration is investigating allegations of falsified trade data.

• Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/10/31/transporting-convicts-from-new-zealand-to-van-diemens-land/

  Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on October 31, 2017 By Dr Kristyn Harman Senior Lecturer in History, University of Tasmania   Like many New Zealanders, I grew up hearing stories about the Australian penal colonies, particularly anecdotes of London...

• UK’s Chief Medical Officer honoured by University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/uk-chief-medical-officer-honoured-university-leicester

  Professor Chris Whitty, one of the most pivotal figures in the UK’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been honoured by the University of Leicester.

• Will the government’s AI action plan be a success?

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/artificial-intelligence

  University of Leicester expert comments on the UK government's action plan to boost its role in developing and deploying artificial intelligence.