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Nuclear expert cautions against unfamiliar new nuclear age
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/nuclear-technologies
High-tech advances in weapons technologies and a return of ‘great power nuclear politics’, risk the world ‘sleepwalking’ into a nuclear age vastly different from the established order of the Cold War, according to new research undertaken at the University of Leicester.
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Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fish-ph-fossils
One of the finest examples of such fossils includes a Cretaceous-era octopus of the extinct genus Keuppia unearthed in Lebanon, estimated to be at least 94 million years old. Sarah Gabbott is a Professor of Palaeobiology and co-author of the paper.
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Field trips
https://le.ac.uk/geography/study/undergraduate/field-trips
Fieldwork is integral to any Geography degree. In the field you'll develop new skills and apply learning from the classroom to real-world problems.
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Sources of funding for oral history projects
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/community-resources/funding
Find out the best ways to source funding for your oral history project from the East Midlands Oral History Archive.
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Turning crises into a Drama
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/turning-crises-into-a-drama
Students swapped their pens and laptops for the stage in order to enhance their learning experience as they study financial crises at Leicester.
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Leicester City Science Stars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester-city-science-stars
Ever wondered what would happen when a group of football professionals, an astronaut in training and 30 children are in one room? Last week more than 30 primary school children explored what it would take to become an astronaut and learned how to build their own rockets...
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Dr Prashant Kidambi's cricket book makes 'Best of Year' list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-cricket-book
Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History, has made it into the Financial Times Sports Books of the Year list with his book Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire which tells the story of the first ‘All-India’ cricket team to go...
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Schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/14-refugee-camp
Appeal for more schools to become ‘Schools of Sanctuary’. Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece.
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University response to EHRC racial harassment report
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/23-university-response-to-ehrc-racial-harassment-report
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has today published a report examining racial harassment in higher education. The report makes for difficult reading for the higher education sector and the EHRC have called for a strong individual and collective response.
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Leicester doctor awarded grant to reduce risks of heart attacks and strokes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/31-saratzis-grant
A vascular surgeon from Leicester’s Hospitals has been awarded a four-year grant worth over £1 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).