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• Roman Leicester comes to life in city-wide family festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/roman-around-leicester-festival-family

  Roman Around Leicester brings the city’s Roman past to life with free family activities, hands-on archaeology and creative workshops across Leicester’s Cultural Quarter.

• Routine eye screening provides a window to heart health in type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/eye-screening-heart-disease-diabetes

  New findings by Leicester experts have shown that routine eye screening could also be used for early detection of underlying heart disease in people with type 2 diabetes

• Earth observation images reveal extent of ferocious forest fires in Siberia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/siberian-fires

  According to Russia’s forestry agency, this year’s fires have ravaged more than 14m hectares, making it the second-worst fire season since the turn of the century.

• Evelyn Waugh and His Circle: Reading and Editing the Complete Works

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/05/27/evelyn-waugh-and-his-circle-reading-and-editing-the-complete-works/

  Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on May 27, 2014 As many of you might know already, in 2015 we are planning a glitzy international Evelyn Waugh conference here in Leicester. Richard III is SO 2013.

• Professor Paul Boyle to chair expert panel

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/professor-paul-boyle-to-chair-expert-panel

  Professor Paul Boyle is among seven leading scientists who are set to form a revitalised Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC) to advise Scottish Ministers from 1 February.

• Star Flaws the Skywalker twins drift apart

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/the-skywalker-twins-drift-apart

  In the original Star Wars trilogy, one of the big revelations is that main characters Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are actually twins separated at birth.

• Leicester astronomers observe star reborn in a flash

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-astronomers-observe-star-reborn-in-a-flash

  An international team of astronomers using Hubble and led by our University has been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 have been observed.

• Public engagement

  https://le.ac.uk/cssp/engagement

  Learn more about public engagement within the School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy.

• Contested Desires Constructive Dialogues

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/contested-desires-constructive-dialogues

  Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues (CDCD) is a three-year arts and heritage programme, co-funded by the EU Creative Europe, engaging artists to examine European colonialism’s legacy in museums and heritage sites.

• Recognising international talent

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/recognising-international-talent

  An international student will be embarking upon a new journey at our University as an ambassador for international investment in women scholars.