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• Activist Practice: Methods of Empowerment

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mu7563

  Module code: MU7563 Museums increasing commitment to communities, audiences, and social purposes has led to rapidly changing approaches to practice and new perspectives on what the core work of cultural organisations should be.

• 40-year study finds mysterious patterns in temperatures at Jupiter

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/patterns-temperature-jupiter

  An international team of scientists, including at the University of Leicester, have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiter’s upper troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere where the giant planet’s weather occurs and where its signature colourful...

• Gene study provides AI insight into a leading cause of dementia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/gene-study-ai-dementia

  Artificial intelligence expert at University of Leicester supports study of vascular smooth muscle, which are affected by NOTCH3, a gene known to play a role in small blood vessel diseases

• Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study

  A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges

• Study should inform future health provision for premature youngsters

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/preterm-healthcare-leicester-study

  A new study by University of Leicester researchers has found that children born preterm spend an average of two days admitted to hospital between going home from neonatal care and their second birthday

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/117/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Student placement in Special Collections, Week 1-2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/07/31/student-placement-in-special-collections-week-1-2/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on July 31, 2025 Guest post written by Yi-Chen Su and Yongqin Huang, who are completing an eight week placement in Archives & Special Collections as part of their MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies .

• New study shows the heart health benefits of more intense physical activity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/heart-study

  Study shows there is a greater reduction in cardiovascular disease risk when more of that activity is of at least moderate intensity.

• Leicester to lead new project on Ancient Egyptian bird mummies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/raptors

  The University of Leicester will lead a study uncovering secrets of Ancient Egyptian bird mummies.

• MIXS: studying Mercury in detail

  https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/mixs

  BepiColombo carries two X-ray spectrometers: MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer) and SIXS (Solar Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer). No-one has sent an imaging X-ray telescope to any planetary body before so this is ground-breaking science.