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• Challenges faced by aspiring female headteachers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/challenges-faced-by-aspiring-female-headteachers

  The University of Leicester’s Doctoral Inaugural lectures series continues on Wednesday 23 May, when two new speakers from the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities will share their research into the topics of education, and social relations.

• The story behind the film

  https://le.ac.uk/centenary/so-that-they-may-have-life/story-behind

  Dr Astley Clarke’s idea for a new university became a focus for the foundation of the living memorial, which today stands as the University of Leicester.

• New online app for reporting sexual violence in Brazil

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/new-online-app-for-reporting-sexual-violence-in-brazil/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 Innovative use of new technology by UNICEF and UN-Habitat: a website which also works as a smartphone app that brings together information on support services for women and girls who are...

• May Day early 19th century traditions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/may-day-early-19th-century-traditions

  This article, written by Sarah Wood, was originally written for the Special Collections blog here Whilst many associate traditional celebrations of May Day with may poles and morris dancers, the University's Special Collections archive has been...

• Partnership could see Malaysian college graduates progress to University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/malaysian-college-graduates-progress-university-leicester

  The University of Leicester has embarked on a new international partnership, by signing an agreement with a Malaysian college.

• ‘Fizzy pop’ process reveals copper-rich volcanoes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/volcano

  Identifying magmas that experience the same process that makes fizzy drinks ‘bubbly’ has been used by a team of University of Leicester geologists to predict whether a volcano’s magma is likely to be rich in copper.

• Student Selected Component (SSC)

  https://le.ac.uk/study/medicine/student-selected-component

  Hear from some of our students about their SSC experiences Contacts Leicester Medical School Phase 2 team: phase2@leicester.ac.uk SSC lead: Dr Richard Kitchen: rk421@leicester.ac.

• Pig spleens sourced from abattoirs could help reduce the need for live animal testing research shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/pig-spleens-sourced-from-abattoirs-could-help-reduce-the-need-for-live-animal-testing-research-shows

  New research published by researchers from the University of Leicester, Leicester’s Hospitals and University College London (Dr Giuseppe Ercoli, who was a post-doctoral researcher at Leicester at the time the work was conducted, now works at UCL) has developed a...

• British space community comes to Leicester for major conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/bpsc-2024-post-conference

  The largest British Planetary Science Conference to date welcomes 200 space experts at Space Park Leicester, University of Leicester and the National Space Centre

• Research shows human impact forms striking new pattern in Earths global energy flow

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/research-shows-human-impact-forms-2018striking-new-pattern2019-in-earth2019s-global-energy-flow

  The impact humans have made on Earth in terms of how we produce and consume resources has formed a ‘striking new pattern’ in the planet’s global energy flow, according to research led by Professors Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz from the Department of Geology.