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• PhD student receives prestigious research grant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/phd-student-receives-prestigious-research-grant

  A PhD student has been awarded funding to investigate the ‘fingerprint’ of organic matter in the Carboniferous Bowland Shale.

• Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/jewish-dress-migration-belonging

  External partners and collaborators|Dress expresses intimate feelings of belonging and identity. A focus on dress is especially rewarding when looking at migrant societies in which people from diverse backgrounds have often different ideas of how one should dress and why.

• University of Leicester historian celebrates double book prize win

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/anderson

  Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical Association’s biennial Kay Daniels Award 2024, for her book Convicts: A Global History.

• Putting satellite data in farmers’ hands to improve food security

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/farming-earth-observation

  PhD project at University of Leicester aims to get more farmers in Kenya and the UK using Earth Observation (E.O) data, allowing them to plan better for extreme weather, boosting climate resilience and food security

• Landmark study reveals hidden frailty crisis in young heart attack patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/heart-attack-frailty-health-risk-leicester

  Researchers in Leicester have uncovered a major blind spot in the way doctors assess future health risk in young adults who suffer a heart attack.

• Letter of the Law and Spirit of the Law

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/03/07/letter-of-the-law-and-spirit-of-the-law/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on March 7, 2018 So this week we learned that a UK parliamentary body had suggested that some members of a cycling team did not break the sporting laws in terms of taking drugs but they had “crossed an ethical line”.

• Monitoring Jupiter’s Atmospheric Heartbeat over Three Decades

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/08/24/monitoring-jupiters-atmospheric-heartbeat-over-three-decades/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 24 August 2020 Long-term infrared monitoring of Jupiter’s equatorial stratosphere over three decades revealed a natural cycle of variable winds and temperatures.

• Activism and Protest in the Information Age

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ms3022

  Module code: MS3022 During this module you'll investigate different forms of activism and protest inspired, facilitated, and sustained by the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in democratic and non‐democratic societies.

• Atmospheric Composition and Air Quality

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/earth-observation-science/atmospheric-composition-and-air-quality

  We make extensive use of Earth observations to address issues of pressing societal need.

• Leading the management of change: Leadership 4

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mw4013

  Module code: MW4013 This module is facilitated through specialist lectures, leadership exercises and workshops, role-play, problem based scenarios, work-based learning and case loading.