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• Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh

  Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences have shaped, and can shape, our thinking about the climate emergency.

• New way of screening toxic chemicals mimics mammal senses

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-way-of-screening-toxic-chemicals-mimics-mammal-senses

  Researchers from our University have developed a new approach for analysing toxic chemicals in complex samples that mimics the way mammals smell and taste. The technique could reduce the need for laboratory animals in biomedical research and other areas of chemical testing.

• Air pollution to become worlds leading cause of premature death by 2050

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/air-pollution-to-become-world2019s-leading-cause-of-premature-death-by-2050

  Leading experts will be discussing prominent environmental issues - including how air pollution will become the world’s top environmental cause of premature death in the coming decades - at an event on Wednesday 25 November.

• Living and Working in Space

  https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/humanity-space/living-and-working-in-space

  Living and Working in Space strand of the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space (LCHS)

• CArchipelago reaches its first birthday with the launch of its new blog

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/03/05/carchipelago-reaches-its-first-birthday-with-the-launch-of-its-new-blog/

  Posted by in Carceral Archipelago on March 5, 2014 The Carceral Archipelago’ is a 5-year project that has been funded by the European Research Council under the direction of principal investigator Professor Clare Anderson . It runs from 2013 to 2018.

• Publications

  https://le.ac.uk/perform/publications

  Browse PERFORM study publications, including media interest for the trial.

• Brexit planning now urgent as leave date looms

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2019/02/21/brexit-planning-now-urgent/

  Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on February 21, 2019 By Rachael Elliott, Head of Thought Leadership, Business Continuity Institute & Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, University of Leicester.

• Trainee doctors in India to bolster their clinical skills with the NHS thanks to landmark initiative

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/trainee-doctors-india-clinical-skills-nhs-landmark-initiative

  Doctors in training from India will now be able to continue their training in NHS hospitals in the UK, thanks to a landmark initiative involving the University of Leicester.

• University study will look at harmful air pollution in our homes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/air-pollution-leicester-study-funding

  Researchers from the University of Leicester have been awarded £2 million to investigate how harmful particles in the air inside our homes affect the breathing and lung health of both children and adults

• About

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/about/

  The Carceral Archipelago is a €1.5m European Research Council funded project, running from 2013-18. Directed by Professor Clare Anderson, a team of researchers and postgraduate students  are working on a global history of penal colonies, 1415-1960.