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• Ground-breaking view of the cosmos revealed at Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/jwst-first-light

  Scientists and engineers from the University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester have been part of the Webb project for more than 20 years and have been involved in the design, manufacture and testing of Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI).

• PhD student works with Syrian refugee children to examine impact of trauma on mental health

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/phd-student-works-with-syrian-refugee-children-to-examine-impact-of-trauma-on-mental-health

  A PhD student from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour has described their journey to study at Leicester and how our University has provided opportunities for them to conduct research to help child victims of the Syrian Civil War.

• University appoints new Director of Development and Alumni Relations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/daro-director

  Steve Corbett has been appointed as the new Director of the Development and Alumni Relations Office.

• University of Leicester hosts event to encourage businesses to take on ex-Forces staff

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/university-leicester-event-businesses-ex-forces-staff

  East Midlands business leaders discovered how Forces veterans and reservists can benefit their organisations at an event held by the University of Leicester.

• Corruption in the management of technology threatens public safety, says University of Leicester academic in new book

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/corruption

  Read more about the new book by Dr Simon Bennett, Corruption and the Management of Public Safety: The Governance of Technological Systems

• Leicester student teams up with influencer to host charity football match for Help the Homeless

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/charity-football-match

  Flexy particularly wanted to help a homeless charity because he knows what it’s like to be in that position. “I’ve been homeless for a lot of my life,” he said.

• Inspirational student who twice battled sepsis receives First Class degree

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/inspirational-student-who-twice-battled-sepsis-receives-first-class-degree

  One of our recent graduates Kishan Vithlani has twice overcome a potentially life-threatening sepsis infection and gone on to achieve a First Class Computer Science BSc. Kishan was born with a congenital heart condition, and had to have surgery twice as a child.

• Discovering Collections Discovering Communities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/15/discovering-collections-discovering-communities/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 15, 2015 This week I attended the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference in the impressive Lowry Centre at Salford Quays.

• Space Park Leicester welcomes leading Indian company AEGION

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/aegion-space-park

  Indian metallurgy and materials engineering company AEGION establishes office at Space Park Leicester

• Celebrating 50 years of knowledge transfer partnerships

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/celebrating-50-years-knowledge-transfer-partnerships

  The University of Leicester hosted a KTP@50 event to mark five decades of transformative collaboration between academia and industry through the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme.