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Tor Clark joins BBC Radio Leicester panel on election night
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/12-tor-on-radio
Tor Clark, Associate Professor in Journalism in our School of Media, Communication and Sociology, will be part of the BBC Radio Leicester live election broadcast team tonight.
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Leicester academic appointed to first ever Government LGBT Advisory Panel
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/21-government-lgbt-advisory-panel
Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy, Associate Professor in Hate Studies within the Department of Criminology, has been appointed to the Government’s first ever LGBT Advisory Panel by Penny Mordaunt, the Minister for Women and Equalities.
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Images of Research winners revealed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/28-images-of-research-winners-revealed
Images of Research|A huge congratulations to our winners for the 2019 Images of Research Competition, which took place on Wednesday 27 November at Fraser Noble Hall. Our research community was challenged to submit an image or photograph which summarised their research.
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Fire and ice: the Antarctic volcanoes that hint at our climate future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/john-smellie-antarctica-volcanoes-climate
Professor John Smellie, Honorary Professor in the School of Geology, Geography and the Environment, talks about his career and his love of the volcanoes of the Antarctic as he receives his second Polar Medal.
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Space Lates 2022: Get Into Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/16/space-lates-2022-backyard-astronomy/
Learn how you can get into astronomy at the National Space Centre's first Space Lates of 2022, 18:00-21:00, 14 January 2022.
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April 2022 newsletter
https://le.ac.uk/cls/study/patient-carer-group/newsletters/april-2022
Dear Patient and Carers, It’s lovely to say ‘hello’ . Spring is on the way and new life is bursting and blooming all around. Currently, the world can appear to have spun out of control, things can appear uncertain and unknown.
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Ukraine war realises predictions of nuclear power plant threat, says Leicester civil safety expert
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/nuclear-power-plant-ukraine
As Ukraine conflict continues, new book by University of Leicester researcher argues that nuclear facilities are more likely to be targeted, and damage to power plants risks radiological contamination of the environment over vast areas.
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Clearing 2022: Brilliant Bianca grasps second chance at university in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/clearing-bianca
Marcin – now a Research Associate in Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy – moved to the UK in September 2019 to set up home for Bianca and Blanka, who arrived in time for mum to start her studies that year. “My two university experiences were so different.
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The Hidden Hate Podcast Series
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/05/18/the-hidden-hate-podcast-series/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on May 18, 2023 By Amy Clarke Research Fellow, Centre for Hate Studies In the summer of 2022, the Centre for Hate Studies (CHS) created a brand-new podcast series, Hidden Hate, hosted by...
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Jurassic calamari: amazing fossil proves that flying reptiles preyed on squid
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/27-pterosaur-vs-squid
Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, flying close to the water surface to grab soft-bodied cephalopods such as Plesioteuthis subovata. Artwork by C Klug and Beat Scheffold.|An incredible fossil brought to light in a new research paper reveals the feeding habits of extinct flying reptiles.