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Leicester academic honoured by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-academic-honoured-by-the-society-for-the-history-of-alchemy-and-chemistry
A former Leicester academic will be celebrated at the anniversary meeting of the Society of the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) on 20 May.
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More on overtime
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/more-on-overtime/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 How much overtime do British workers do? The Office for National Statistics has Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) .
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Creative Computing BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/creative-computing-bsc/2026
Today's digital economy needs tomorrow's leaders to have both creative flair and technical skills - and the business acumen to tie them together. The Creative Computing course is as flexible and innovative as you.
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Anthropocene book series launches in Croatia with book on the far-future Earth by Leicester geologist
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/anthropocene-book-series-launches-in-croatia-with-book-on-the-far-future-earth-by-leicester-geologist
A new book series titled ‘Anthropocene’ has just been launched by Croatia’s leading academic book publisher Skolska knjiga, with the first title being Zemlja nakon nas, a new translation of The Earth After Us by Professor Jan Zalasiewicz of our School of Geography,...
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Space Park Leicester to play central part in shaping regional prosperity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/space-park-leicester-shaping-regional-prosperity
Chief Executive Officer at Space Park Leicester William Wells has been appointed to the Innovation Advisory Group (IAG), a sub-group of the Leicester and Leicestershire Business Board
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Leicester Professor honoured with global award for life-saving disaster risk work
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/nibedita-ray-bennett-disaster-deaths-award
The University of Leicester's Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett has been awarded a prestigious Norio Okada Implementation Science Award for her work on disaster risk management alongside her long-time collaborator, Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita (Kansai University).
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Glorious Debo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/09/29/glorious-debo/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in School of English Blog on September 29, 2014 Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, often referred to as the “last Mitford sister”, has passed away. But Debo, as she was known to friends and family, was an institution in her own right.
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Bioscience departments receive recognition for tackling gender inequality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/bioscience-departments-receive-recognition-for-tackling-gender-inequality
Our University has been further recognised for our commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education with the announcement that two of our biosciences departments have received Athena SWAN awards.
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Wind turbine remains may be among ‘most surprising’ fossils for far future generations, palaeontologists say
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/wind-turbine-remains-surprising-fossils-palaeontology
University of Leicester palaeontologists publishing new book on technofossils suggest that wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle materials, may be among the most surprising fossils found by future palaeontologists
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University members celebrate the Queens 90th birthday at the Patrons lunch
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/university-members-celebrate-the-queens-90th-birthday-at-the-patrons-lunch
Twelve members of the University and Students' Union were among the crowd of 10,000 guests who braved the rain in London yesterday for a picnic lunch to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen's 90th birthday.