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• New research sheds light on how reward-induced behaviour in the brain may be controlled

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-research-sheds-light-on-how-reward-induced-behaviour-in-the-brain-may-be-controlled

  A new study has shed light on how reward-associated behaviour can be controlled by different groups of neurons in the brain.

• Fellowship schemes

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/lias/fellowship-schemes

  Learn more about fellowship schemes within the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies.

• University Head of School selected as member of Blue Plaques Panel

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/tilly-blyth-blue-plaque-panel

  University of Leicester’s Head of Museum Studies has been announced as one of the newest members of English Heritage’s Blue Plaques Panel. Professor Tilly Blyth is one of four industry experts selected to help decide the newest additions to London’s blue plaque scheme.

• New report shows drivers are unaware of the serious consequences of failing to stop after an accident

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/new-report-shows-drivers-are-unaware-of-the-serious-consequences-of-failing-to-stop-after-an-accident

  A new report by our Department of Criminology provides insight into the reasons why drivers fail to stop after an accident.

• Researchers to explore workplace regulations on vaping

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/researchers-to-explore-workplace-regulations-on-vaping

  Researchers from our University will be examining the difficulties of regulating e-cigarettes and if heavy regulations could be encouraging users to move back to combustible tobacco as part of a new project funded by Cancer Research UK.

• Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh

  Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences have shaped, and can shape, our thinking about the climate emergency.

• Launch of the University's new strategy

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/senior-management/executive-board/president-and-vice-chancellor/new-strategy

  Vice-Chancellor Nishan Canagarajah’s speech on launching the University's new strategy

• A change of scenery mankinds unprecedented transformation of Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/a-change-of-scenery-mankind2019s-unprecedented-transformation-of-earth

  Human beings are pushing the planet in an entirely new direction with revolutionary implications for its life, a new study by researchers from the Department of Geology and published in The Anthropocene Review suggests.

• Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/tracking-a-solar-eruption-through-the-solar-system

  Ten spacecraft, from ESA’s Venus Express to NASA’s Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather event.

• R-shief: tracking Arab public opinion

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/r-shief-tracking-arab-public-opinion/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 The new website is currently under development. It aggregates data from social media – Facebook, Twitter etc. to track public opinion from the Arab world.