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• Students in national top 5 for global mental health volunteering

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/students-in-national-top-5-for-mental-health-volunteering

  As of 2018, our University is the 4th highest academic institution in the UK for student sign-ups to international volunteering placements with mental health-focused organisation SLV.Global. SLV.

• Venice fellowships at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/postgraduate/venice-fellowships

  Learn more about Venice Fellowships at Leicester, via the British Council.

• MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 1-2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/07/23/ma-museum-studies-placement-in-special-collections-weeks-1-2/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on July 23, 2018 Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team.

• University to host encore of Sir David Attenboroughs public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/university-to-host-2018encore2019-of-sir-david-attenborough2019s-public-lecture

  Sir David Attenborough’s lecture for the Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture series entitled ‘Beauty in Nature’, which was originally delivered in January 2016 at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, is to be screened for the public.

• Daring Deeds of Valour

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2016/02/09/daring-deeds-of-valour/

  Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on February 9, 2016 Daring Deeds of Valour By Dr Rachel Bates, University of Leicester The 29 January 2016 marks the 160 th anniversary of the Victoria Cross, a key legacy of the Crimean War (1854-56).

• Why Not… Join the Conversation on Discord?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/20/why-not-join-the-conversation-on-discord/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 20 November 2020 Undergraduate students in the School of Physics and Astronomy run the “To Infinity and Beyond” Discord server, open to all to maintain a strong community during the months of lockdown.

• Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy

  The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website. Tor Clark, a former newspaper editor and political journalist and now Associate Professor in Journalism, was interviewed by Politics.

• Victorian games and 19th century school life showcased at new exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/victorian-games-and-19th-century-school-life-showcased-at-new-exhibition

  A new exhibition exploring the lives of Victorian schoolchildren – including the games that they played and their classroom experiences – is on display at our University in the Library's Special Collections until 7 July.

• Diabetes Professors back Jamie Oliver sugar campaign

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/diabetes-professors-back-jamie-oliver-sugar-campaign

  Two of the country’s leading researchers into Type 2 diabetes have come out in support of Jamie Oliver’s latest health campaign, saying “it’s time to tackle the sugar generation”.

• Cataloguing the AIM archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/08/hanna-noor-cataloguing-the-aim-archive/

  Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on January 8, 2020   Guest post from Hana Noor, a former MA Museum Studies student at the University of Leicester, 2019 Some of the AIM papers in the archive store, before processing       As part of my...