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• Launch of study into Northern Ireland social exclusion and sport

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/launch-of-study-into-northern-ireland-social-exclusion-and-sport

  Almost 90 per cent of people in Northern Ireland believe that sport is a good way to break down barriers between Protestants and Catholics.

• Royal honour for Masters student

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/royal-honour-for-masters-student

  James Hempsall, who this term began an MA in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy in our Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning, has been awarded an OBE in recognition of his services to childcare in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, and was recently presented with his...

• Careers launchpad for space industry

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/careers-launchpad-for-space-industry

  The Second Annual Space Industry Careers Fair will take place on 9 February 2015 at the National Space Centre in Leicester. More than 150 students are expected, representing 38 different Universities and education institutions across the UK.

• Stem cell research to help fight brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stem-cell-research-to-help-fight-brittle-bone-disease-osteogenesis-imperfecta

  A study involving Professor Raymond Dalgleish (pictured) from the Department of Genetics is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into foetuses with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which causes repeated...

• The Reverend Canon Angela Tilby to speak on Work Wealth and Human Flourishing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/the-reverend-canon-angela-tilby-to-speak-on-2018work-wealth-and-human-flourishing2019

  The Reverend Canon Angela Tilby (pictured) will present this year’s Provost Derek Hole Annual Lecture which will take place in the Rattray Lecture Theatre on Thursday 3 December at 5.30pm and is free and open to the public.

• Pro-Vice-Chancellor joins team assessing Higher Education teaching quality UK-wide

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/pro-vice-chancellor-joins-team-assessing-higher-education-teaching-quality-uk-wide

  Professor Jon Scott, our University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Experience, is among the appointments announced by HEFCE to its Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) panel which includes academics, students, employers and widening participation experts.

• Leicester kidney transplant patient wins research award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/leicester-kidney-transplant-patient-wins-research-award

  A former Emmerdale actor from Leicester who underwent a kidney transplant has scooped an award for his part in research into the condition.

• Can Leicester City win the Premier League

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/can-lcfc-go-on-to-win-the-premier-league

  The Foxes are enjoying extraordinary success this season and are currently two points clear at the top with 12 games remaining, despite being bottom of the table at the same stage last season.

• Research shows national parliaments in the UK and the Netherlands host highest number of MPs of immigrant origin

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/research-shows-national-parliaments-in-the-uk-and-the-netherlands-host-highest-number-of-mps-of-immigrant-origin

  Key research findings about the political representation of citizens of immigrant origin (IO) in European national parliaments have been announced at an event in central London on Monday 15 February.

• Scientists discover prehistoric Kite Runner

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/scientists-discover-prehistoric-2018kite-runner2019

  Scientists have discovered an ancient animal that carried its young in pouches or capsules tethered to the parent’s body like tiny, swirling kites. The miniscule creature, Aquilonifer spinosus, was an arthropod that lived about 430 million years ago.