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• Archaeology students from University of Leicester unearth very big Roman house in the country

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/roman-villa

  Finds from latest excavation in Leicestershire may provide insight into the ‘rural charm’ of Britain to the Romans, while first-year archaeology students developed their excavation skills with Time Team filming for a feature later in the year

• Leading Through Excellence: Lessons from Teach First

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/08/09/leading-through-excellence-lessons-from-teach-first/

  Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on August 9, 2018   As an American twenty-something making a killing working in London, Brett Wigdortz might not be who we would expect to radically reinvigorate state education in England.

• DNA and family history explored in public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

  The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.

• Report explores the value we place in arts and culture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/report-explores-the-value-we-place-in-arts-and-culture

  Professor Mark Banks (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has written a report for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Cultural Value Project – a two-year project exploring how we think about the value of arts and culture to individuals...

• Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth

  Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.

• Tobias Gould

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/entrepreneurs-in-residence/tobias-gould

  Tobias is a social entrepreneur and business leader, founder of jerrybottle.com, and co-author of the Government’s flagship ‘Help to Grow’ programme delivered by 50 universities across the UK.

• Climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change

  Reducing our environmental negative impact Avoid 100 Increasing our positive impact and offsetting Mitigate 200 Readying our campus for a changing world Adapt 250 Teaching and innovating for a better world Positive Impact 300 Climate Change Strategy (PDF, 463kb) Climate...

• Wildfires across the Americas have been supercharged by climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/wildfires-americas-supercharged-climate-change

  Study: Warming increased burning in Pantanal, Chiquitano and Amazon, releasing billions of tonnes of CO2, while climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s deadly fires by at least 2-3 times

• Wheelchair Rugby champ to compete in International Tournament

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/wheelchair-rugby-champ-to-compete-in-international-tournament-1

  Athlete Nicholas Cummins, who is also a Postgraduate Researcher in our School of History, Politics and International Relations, will be representing team GB at the inaugural King Power Quad Nations.

• Faith in Medication film nominated for national award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/faith-in-medication-film-nominated-for-national-award

  A film made by our University has been nominated for a national award.