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• €1.5 million award to study birth of planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/erc-starter-grant

  Leicester astrophysics research which seeks to answer fundamental questions about the formation of planets has been awarded a major funding boost by the European Research Council (ERC).

• Health study with 11,000 participants celebrates 10 year anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/exceed

  A major health study led by the University of Leicester has recruited a staggering 11,000 patients across the city and county since it began 10 years ago.

• Opening up the University archives for Heritage Open Days on 19/20 September

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/18-heritage-open-days

  As part of Heritage Open Days, England’s largest festival of history and culture, the University of Leicester is opening its archives up to the public with a series of free events on Thursday 19 September and Friday 20 September.

• Developing new audiences and promoting social inclusion

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/developing-new-audiences

  RCMG was pleased to work in partnership with research consultants Morris Hargreaves McIntyre on this project for Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museums Wales.

• Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/lockdown-effects-on-bame-communities

  New research by University of Leicester academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, may not have been as effective in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities with data showing that cases in these...

• Exceptional & Extraordinary

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/exceptional-and-extraordinary

  Exceptional & Extraordinary has commissioned four disabled artists to create four emotionally powerful, impactful, provocative and high-quality artworks.

• Queer Heritage and Collections Network awarded Arts Council England and National Lottery Project Funding

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/queer-heritage

  Read more about the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries' latest project on queer heritage

• Leicester researchers provide expertise to world-leading Alzheimer’s prevention study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/26-world-leading-alzheimers-study

  Study aims to improve the understanding of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease

• Library and Learning Services: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 5

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/page/5/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Leicester study to improve crop plants

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

  Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.