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Outstanding teaching and collaboration at Leicester recognised with higher education’s most prestigious awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/national-teaching-fellowships-collaborative-award-teaching-excellence
Two University of Leicester academics receive National Teaching Fellowships while student-staff initiative MedRACE (Raising Awareness, Celebrating Excellence) also receives Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence
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Spotlight on SLAIDER -- Self-learning AI-based digital twins for accelerating clinical care in respiratory emergency admissions
https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/life-health-sciences/slaider
SLAIDER is a £620k project running from 2023 to 2025 and funded by the EPSRC. To provide more context on the project, the team was asked several questions about SLAIDER and how it could impact real-life clinical care.
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Midlands Mindforge Appoints Industry Experts to Scientific Advisory Council
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/midlands-mindforge-council
Professor Chris Brightling from the University of Leicester is one of eight inaugural members of the Scientific Advisory Council for Midlands Mindforge.
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Sex workers in research study call for greater legal protections against sexual violence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/sex-worker-access-justice-sexual-violence
Researchers from the University of Leicester, University of Strathclyde, Queen's University, University of Nevada and University of Otago interviewed more than 700 sex workers.
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Live online sessions
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/online/live-online-sessions
Booking The sessions are led by the Botanic Garden Education Officer.
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Ian Bradley
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/ian-bradley
It is with great regret that we have learned of the death of Ian Bradley, a member of the Economics Department for 40 years. Martin Hoskins with help from Deborah, Derek Deadman and Peter Jackson has written the tribute below.
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The kitten heel: progress for women in politics?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/kitten-heel
Read the article "The kitten heel: progress for women in politics?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Prejudice & Pride: exploring LGBTQ lives at the National Trust
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/prejudice-and-pride
This research project enriched and informed the National Trust’s 2017 programme that marked 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.
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Greater empathy reduces problems with patient care
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/howick
Greater levels of compassion from hospital and clinical staff can reduce persistent problems with patient care says a University expert in empathy
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New poll reveals 8 out of 10 students rate university ‘learning experience’ as most important
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/post-covid-survey
New research commissioned by the University of Leicester has revealed how post-COVID, ‘learning experience’ matters most to students (82%), followed by ‘gaining independence’ (78%), green open spaces (78%), and mental health and wellbeing (64%).