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• Researchers take on marathon challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/researchers-take-on-marathon-challenge

  A host of generous fundraisers from the University took part in the 13-mile Leicester Half-Marathon on 25 October to raise money for worthy causes.

• Project to help reduce unsafe abortion death rates in disaster zones

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/project-to-help-reduce-unsafe-abortion-death-rates-in-disaster-zones

  New research led by Dr Nibedita S Ray-Bennett from the School of Management will look into the sexual and reproductive health issues in disaster-prone areas during times of humanitarian crisis.

• Leicester Ageing Together Learning event: BAME older people flourishing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/22-leicester-ageing-together-learning-event-bame-older-people-flourishing

  Leicester ageing together logo|University of Leicester co-organised event to focus on overcoming loneliness among BAME older people in the community.

• Hidden histories revealed at Bradgate Park

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/hidden-histories-revealed-at-bradgate-park

  In just the first two weeks of a five-year archaeological project at Bradgate Park, a team of students and staff from the University have unearthed thousands of years of history.

• History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/history-and-security-sector-reform

  Over the past two years there has been a general shift in models of incarceration in the former British colony of Guyana, from punishment (punitive measures) to correction and rehabilitation (via training and education).

• University of Leicester historian celebrates double book prize win

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/anderson

  Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical Association’s biennial Kay Daniels Award 2024, for her book Convicts: A Global History.

• How we’ve answered an urgent Government call for help in COVID-19 fight

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/03-call-for-help

  Staff and postdoctoral students from the University’s College of Life Sciences have answered an urgent call to action from central Government.

• Chancellor

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/court/chancellor

  Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, joined the University of Leicester as Chancellor on 1 March 2023.

• University volunteers plant thousands of bulbs at Botanic Garden

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/botanic-garden-crocus-plant-nick-bailey

  Green fingered volunteers are helping to plant 80,000 crocus bulbs in Leicester’s Botanic Garden this week

• Careers and employability

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/study/distance-learning/careers-employability

  As a Distance Learning student in the School of Business at the University of Leicester, our dedicated School’s Careers team will support you to develop both personally and professionally.