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Event: Update on UKRI Open Access books policy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/28/event-update-on-ukri-open-access-books-policy/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on June 28, 2023 Join us on the 17 July for an important update on UKRI’s open access policy for academic books. Library Research Services will be explaining how to apply to UKRI’s new fund for open access academic books.
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Astronomers discover system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/astronomers-discover-system-of-seven-earth-sized-planets-just-40-light-years-away
An international team of astronomers, including space scientists from our University, has found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away.
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Expedition 357: Atlantis Massif Serpentinization and Life
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2014-15/atlantis
October 2015 – December 2015 IODP Expedition 357: Atlantis Massif Serpentinization and Life aims to improve our understanding of seafloor serpentinization and its role in driving hydrothermal systems; sustaining microbiological communities; and the sequestration of carbon in...
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Evelyn Waugh at the Huntington
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2016/07/08/evelyn-waugh-at-the-huntington/
Rationale for the Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector symposium to be held at the Huntington Library, 5-6 May 2017
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Transformative exhibition ‘Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles’ arriving in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/attenborough-arts-centre-material-worlds
Artists featured in the exhibition include Caroline Achaintre, Jonathan Baldock, Phyllida Barlow, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Tenant of Culture, Alexandre da Cunha, Tonico Lemos Auad, Paul Maheke, Anna Perach, Yelena Popova, Yinka Shonibare, Rae-Yen Song, and Zadie Xa.
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Space Park Leicester to showcase science behind pioneering instruments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/showcase-science-pioneering-instruments
Staff from Space Park Leicester will attend Space-Comm Expo at the ExCel, London on 4-5 March to highlight both the BepiColombo Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) instrument and the SMILE SXI instrument.
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Making it in the UK screen sector
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/2018making-it2019-in-the-uk-screen-sector
An upcoming event will explore how the UK film and screen industries including creators, funders and businesses can work towards improving inclusion and diversity.
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Waugh Geography quiz
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/04/04/geographyquiz/
A geography quiz based on the novles of Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1986
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Flaounes starred on BBC1 ‘Great British Bake Off’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/10/flaounes-starred-on-bbc1-great-british-bake-off/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on September 10, 2015 Flaounes were the start of Britain’s favourite baking competition, ‘Great British Bake Off’.
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Dr Pratik Choudhary to join world-leading Leicester Diabetes Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/pratik-choudhary
The world-leading Leicester Diabetes Centre has announced that Dr Pratik Choudhary is to join its team of experts as a Professor in type 1 diabetes and technology, and will lead the clinical service for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in type 1 diabetes.