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• New research uncovers secrets of space’s mysterious black holes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/black-hole-vs-white-dwarf

  X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss;|Scientists have uncovered clues into the reasons why mysterious black holes grow in size, after discovering an amazing struggle between a star and a black hole 250,000 light years away.

• AI’s role in healthcare to be debated at international empathy conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/ai-empathy-stoneygate-centre

  The impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare will come under the spotlight at a major international conference led by experts from the University of Leicester

• Celebrate culture and creativity with Attenborough Arts Centre’s autumn programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/aa-autumn

  Highlights of its popular Creative Course programme include Captured on Canvas with painter Jemisha Maadhavji who was recently featured in BBC 1’s ‘Extraordinary Portraits’.

• The Hologic Global Women’s Health Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/08/10/the-hologic-global-womens-health-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2021 Aims to be the first globally comparative study of women’s health. It is based on Gallup world poll data.

• Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/womens-resilience-to-disasters-wrd-knowledge-hub/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Launched by UN Women in partnership with the Australian Governmen t this new site aims to spotlight research and resources relating to  gender-responsive disaster risk...

• Norwich Women’s Film Weekend: online archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/01/27/norwich-womens-film-weekend-online-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2023 The Norwich Women’s Film Weekend (or NWFW) was a two-day annual event created by Cinewomen that ran for 10 years, from 1979 to 1989, at Cinema City in Norwich.

• New Roman Leicester children’s book and art competition launch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/13-roman-childrens-book-and-art-competition

  New Roman Leicester children’s book and art competition launch Roman soldier|University of Leicester book and competition to teach children about Roman Britain A new book, Life in the Roman World: Roman Leicester, has been developed by the University of Leicester to educate...

• New online tool to assess children’s cognitive and language development

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/13-parca-r

  A paper published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health provides new standardised scores for the Parent Report of Children’s Abilities Revised (PARCA-R).

• Santa’s sleigh flies with the power of the Apollo mission rocket

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/santa-sleigh-engine

  Santa’s sleigh would require equivalent thrust to that produced by the Saturn V rocket or 150 Boeing 747-400 engines, University of Leicester students have found.

• Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora with Christmas lightshow

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/webb-mysteries-jupiter-aurora-christmas-lightshow

  Highest time resolution images of Jupiter’s infrared ‘dancing lights’ obtained by University of Leicester-led team on Christmas Day