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Open letter from our President and Vice-Chancellor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/open-letter-from-vice-chancellor
An open letter concerning COVID-19 to parents, carers and friends from President and Vice-Chancellor, Nishan Canagarajah.
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It’s nice to be important, but is it really more important to be nice?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/02/07/its-nice-to-be-important-but-is-it-really-more-important-to-be-nice/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on February 7, 2018 The late British entertainer Bruce Forsyth had amongst his several catch phrases “it’s nice to be important but it is more important to be nice”.
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Local research study contributes to global findings which pinpoint genes for depression across ethnicities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/exceed
A University of Leicester study has contributed to the world’s largest and most diverse genetic study ever into major depression, helping to reveal nearly 300 previously unknown genetic links to the condition
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Flaring star could be down to young planet’s disc inferno
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/planetary-disc-inferno
New simulations led by University of Leicester offer new explanation for star’s 85-year flare. In this scenario, a young giant planet is burning up very close to its star, suggesting solar systems may have hosted many of such planets that have since ‘evaporated’
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Life-Writing, Prisoners of War and the Carceral Archipelago
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/11/10/life-writing-prisoners-of-war-and-the-carceral-archipelago/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on November 10, 2015 by Grace Huxford Lecturer in Nineteenth/Twentieth Century History, University of Bristol At the Carceral Archipelago conference held in September at the University of Leicester, I delivered a paper on...
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Adult education Theres no age limit to learning at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/adult-education-theres-no-age-limit-to-learning-at-leicester
Charlotte Barratt works in the Widening Participation team at the University of Leicester: "I work mainly with mature students: My work involves encouraging people over the age of 21 to come to university, to highlight their options and to try and encourage them to come...
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Machine learning reveals clues to improved weather forecasting in our atmosphere
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/weather-patterns
Inspired by statistical mechanics, scientists co-led by University of Leicester applied algorithms designed to study molecules to atmospheric data and identified patterns in atmospheric fields that give clues to when weather variations will occur
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The necessary discomfort of soft intelligence
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/10/07/the-necessary-discomfort-of-soft-intelligence/
Posted by Graham Martin in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on October 7, 2015 It’s comforting to have hard facts and figures so that we can feel like we know exactly what went wrong and what went right.
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Leicester celebrates British Science Week with top five innovations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/innovations
The University of Leicester is celebrating this year’s theme for British Science Week (5-14 March 2021), ‘Innovating for the Future’, by highlighting the top five innovations pioneered at the University.
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Student profile: Tia
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/student-profiles/tia-esrc-midlands-grad
Tia is studying on the Human Geography Pathway with the ESRC Midlands Graduate School. Read more about her experiences of studying a PhD at Leicester.