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• University study will look at harmful air pollution in our homes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/air-pollution-leicester-study-funding

  Researchers from the University of Leicester have been awarded £2 million to investigate how harmful particles in the air inside our homes affect the breathing and lung health of both children and adults

• About

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/about/

  The Carceral Archipelago is a €1.5m European Research Council funded project, running from 2013-18. Directed by Professor Clare Anderson, a team of researchers and postgraduate students  are working on a global history of penal colonies, 1415-1960.

• Country Reports on Terrorism 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/country-reports-on-terrorism-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 Just released by the US state Department, these annual reports have regional and country reports as well as essays reviewing global trends, terrorism safe havens and terrorist organisations.

• Leicester experts help local businesses face COVID-19

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/small-business-leadership-programme

  Business experts at the University of Leicester have this week launched a fully-funded leadership course for small-to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) facing the impact of COVID-19.

• Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene

  A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.

• Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh

  Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences have shaped, and can shape, our thinking about the climate emergency.

• Leicester graduate launches space career with NASA

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/nasa-fellowship

  A University of Leicester graduate has described the ‘dream’ of finding out he’d landed a prestigious research position with NASA.

• Book Trade Networks

  https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/research/book-trade-networks

  The University of Leicester's Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for the Book Trade Network project.

• Pump Priming Awards

  https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/funding-opportunities/pump-priming-awards

  Yearly or Bi-yearly Pump Priming Awards linked to BHF Accelerator

• New AI tool helps doctors treat cancer patients after heart attack

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/ai-cancer-patients-heart-attack-leicester

  University of Leicester researchers have pioneered a new tool to determine the risk of secondary heart attacks in cancer patients using Artificial Intelligence