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• Laser-firing spacecraft lauded by Leicester Director

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/laser-firing-spacecraft-lauded-by-leicester-director

  Professor John Remedios, Head and Professor of Earth Observation Science and head of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) at our University has been involved in an event for a new European Space Agency instrument.

• Educational policy and practice: how ‘evidence-based’ can or should it be?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/06/12/500/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2017 ‘On the research side, evidence-based education seems to favour a technocratic model in which it is assumed that the only relevant research questions are questions about...

• University historian drives successful campaign for Leicestershire flag

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/leicestershire-flag

  Professor Shipley formed the idea of establishing a flag for Leicestershire in 2014, when he noticed that around half of England’s 39 historic counties had adopted flags in the previous decade or so, and that soon Leicestershire would be one of the few without one.

• Leicester academics receive cash boost for pioneering international space partnership

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/bahrain-bilateral-fund

  The University of Leicester and Geospatial Insight will receive up to £75,000 to support work on carbon mapping sensors for monitoring greenhouse gas emission management programmes in Bahrain and the wider Gulf region.

• Expert opinions cover countering terrorism the race to develop AI weapons Turkeys upcoming election and public toilets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/expert-opinions-cover-countering-terrorism-the-race-to-develop-ai-weapon-and-turkeys-upcoming-election

  Dr Rob Dover from our School of History, Politics and International Relations has discussed the Government's new 'CONTEST' Strategy for Countering Terrorism announced earlier this month.

• IBM to create first UK services centre in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/ibm-to-create-first-uk-services-centre-in-leicester

  The University of Leicester has played an important role in securing the move of global information technology company IBM to the city.

• University project provides boost for womens empowerment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-project-provides-boost-for-womens-empowerment

  A major international project investigating women academics’ careers in public universities in Pakistan has shattered preconceptions about women-only universities and identified them as progressive spaces that play a major role in developing women personally and...

• Beta-blockers could reduce death among those with diabetes and hypoglycaemia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/22-beta-blockers-reduce-death-diabetes-hypoglycaemia

  Beta blockers|A type of drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure could reduce the risk of death among those with type 2 diabetes and a related complication.

• Talk by Riders Chairman offers insights into running a top-flight basketball team

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/20-riders-talk

  A public lecture at the University of Leicester on 27 November offers a unique insight into the management of Leicester’s legendary basketball club, the Leicester Riders.

• Child health lecture launches series celebrating Medical Schools 40th anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/child-health-lecture-launches-series-celebrating-medical-schools-40th-anniversary

  The director of the country’s biggest study into child health will be presenting a lecture about the project on 10 September as the first of a series of lectures to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the University of Leicester Medical School.