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• Bookings open for the University of Leicester’s space CPD course

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/space-park-cpd-course

  Fundamentals of Space Short Courses now open for bookings

• Leicester’s global standing recognised by rise in world university rankings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/the-world-rankings

  The University of Leicester has been ranked in the top 200 universities in the world following a rigorous assessment by Times Higher Education.

• World’s first picture of the molecular machinery that makes cilia beat

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/cilia

  A picture of the structures that power human cilia – the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways, has been produced by scientists for the first time.

• Four-midable – Times Uni of the Year shortlisting is Leicester’s fourth accolade in September

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/times

  The University of Leicester has been shortlisted for The Times and The Sunday Times University of The Year 2025, the fourth accolade it has received in recent weeks.

• New research reveals the man behind Samuel Pepys’s love for portraits

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/27-samuel-pepys-portraits

  Samuel Pepys, the Restoration diarist who meticulously documented his life in 1660s London, also documented himself in other ways – through portraits.

• The Centre for Regional and Local History’s New Library Spaces

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/blog/new-library-spaces

  Back in 2021 the Centre for English Local History moved out of Marc Fitch House at 3-5 Salisbury Road, where it had resided since 1988, to a new space on the University’s main campus.

• New Institute to bolster research among Leicester’s Health and Care professionals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/institute-for-health

  A new institute has been launched to radically boost the number of research opportunities available to Leicester’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health scientists and pharmacists

• Where is the world’s happiest country?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report .  It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.

• Zanzibar’s Prison Island: The Prison That Never Was, by Sarah Longair

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/10/23/zanzibars-prison-island-the-prison-that-never-was-by-sarah-longair/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 23, 2014 My initial research on peculiar history of Zanzibar’s so-called Prison Island as part of the Carceral Archipelago project began last year delving into the records in the National Archives and the...

• The sky’s the limit for student rocket launches at University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/rockets-students

  University hosts local sixth form students for an afternoon of launching their creations into the skies above Oadby.