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• Sensory Reading: New Approaches to Teaching and Learning GCSE English Literature

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/sensory-reading

  Led by Professor Phil Shaw and Dr Scott Freer in the Department of English, ‘Sensory Reading’ aims to develop outreach opportunities arising from Phil Shaw’s AHRC Leadership Fellow project, Wordsworth 2020.

• Documentary and discussion panel on women film directors

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/18-half-the-picture

  A film screening and panel discussion at Phoenix on 26 November will explore the continuing under-representation of women among film directors.

• Juno Mission

  https://le.ac.uk/juno/juno-mission

  Find out more about the Juno Mission at the University of Leicester.

• Spotlight on University of Leicester students and community projects for royal visit

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/28-spotlight-students-community-projects-royal-visit

  Will and Kate 2100|Today (Wednesday 28 November), Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit the city in tribute to last month's helicopter crash at Leicester City Football Club.

• Defining Moments: Poetry and Presence

  https://le.ac.uk/english/research/research-projects/past-projects/defining-moments

  Project overview Dr Mary Ann Lund’s project explores the relationship between poetry, place, and spiritual exploration. It focuses on poetry’s attentiveness to the here and now, to moments of ‘thisness’.

• Painting the campus blue to show support for Leicester City Football Club

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/showing-support-for-leicester-city-football-club-by-painting-the-campus-blue

  With Leicester City Football Club just one win away from the Premier League title, our University will be turning its campus blue to show support for the local football heroes.

• Computer scientists to unveil ‘sense check’ for AI robots at prestigious conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/june/sense-check-ai-robots-prestigious-conference

  New research can determine whether robots are relying on irrelevant ‘distractions’ in the environment when following instructions to be presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2026 in Seoul, South Korea

• Tiny fossils unlock clues to Earths climate half a billion years ago

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/tiny-fossils-unlock-clues-to-earth2019s-climate-half-a-billion-years-ago

  An international collaboration of scientists, led by the University of Leicester, has investigated Earth’s climate over half a billion years ago by combining climate models and chemical analyses of fossil shells about 1mm long.

• University of Leicester bestows honour on English student-turned-inspiring-author

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/jeffrey-boakye

  A University of Leicester graduate who has enjoyed a successful career as an author, broadcaster and educator has been awarded an honorary degree by his alma mater.

• 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.