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• Leicester academic heads judging panel to land robot on the moon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-academic-heads-judging-panel-to-land-robot-on-the-moon

  An academic from our University has been elected to Chair a judging panel in a global $30 million prize competition to land a robot on the moon.

• Movember

  https://le.ac.uk/movember

  Would you like to raise funds for men’s health causes and have fun at the same time? Why not join students and staff across the University this Movember? The main way that people raise funds for Movember is by growing a sponsored moustache – ‘Grow a mo to help a bro’ –...

• Exploring the hidden world of eighteenth-century male bodies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/exploring-the-hidden-world-of-eighteenth-century-male-bodies

  Dr Sarah Goldsmith from our School of History, Politics and International Relations has been selected as a ‘New Generation Thinker’ for 2018 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC, where she will be gaining skills in disseminating research...

• Leicester recognised for bang for the buck on research at Higher Education Oscars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/leicester-recognised-for-2018bang-for-the-buck2019-on-research-at-higher-education-2018oscars2019

  Our University secured the THE DataPoints Merit Award trophy at this year’s Times Higher Education Awards, held in association with Santander Universities UK.

• Person-Job Fit: Some Questions

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2017/02/14/person-job-fit-some-questions/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on February 14, 2017 So the media appears to be full of stories about Donald J Trump these days, and how he has started in his new job.

• The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.

• Midlands commission highlights action to address health and care inequalities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/midlands-commission-healthcare-inequalities

  Organisations across the Midlands and leading national health charities are collectively launching a policy commission which has the potential to transform the health and care of people across the region by addressing health and care inequalities

• MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 5-6

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/08/22/ma-museum-studies-placement-in-special-collections-weeks-5-6/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on August 22, 2018 Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team.   Yineng Hello, I’m Yineng Zhu.

• Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/south-africa-lakes

  Arid regions of South Africa were once home to lakes, a University of Leicester-led study has confirmed. Scientists have used modelling to determine the climate and ecology at the time.

• Congratulations to Sarah Casewell and the Backyard Worlds Team

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/24/congratulations-to-sarah-casewell-and-the-backyard-worlds-team/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 24 June 2021 Enormous congratulations to the Backyard Worlds Team, including Leicester scientist Dr. Sarah Casewell, on being the 2021 recipients of a Robert H Goddard award for science.