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• Leicester researcher scoops Lifetime Achievement Award for innovations in health

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/innovation-awards

  Professor Philip Baker, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at the University of Leicester, addressed innovators, inventors and developers from across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland in celebration of the University’s Centenary.

• £2.5m to help with complex health and social care decision-making across the UK

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/evidence-synthesis-funding

  Funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to support collaboration providing research-based evidence to support important decision-making across the four UK nations.

• Political Cartoons in the Classroom: The ‘Simple View of Reading’ Approach

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/03/02/political-cartoons-in-the-classroom-the-simple-view-of-reading-approach/

  Blog on reading political cartoons in the classroom

• Academic comments on the rise of kids activities being marketed to adults

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/academic-comments-on-the-rise-of-kids2019-activities-being-marketed-to-adults

  Dr Jane Pilcher from our School of Media, Communication and Sociology has been featured in an article for The Guardian discussing why kids’ activities – such as bouncy castles and ballpits - are now being marketed to grown men and women.

• The happy ending to the story of ambitious project to refurbish iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/the-2018happy-ending2019-to-the-story-of-ambitious-project-to-refurbish-iconic-engineering-building

  The Herculean task of replacing the iconic roof of one the world’s most revered pieces of 20th-century architecture has been captured on the page by the lead designer of the project.

• Book on post-apartheid South Africa by Leicester academic published

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/book-on-post-apartheid-south-africa-by-leicester-academic-published

  Lecturer and South Africa specialist from our University Dr James Hamill has published a new book, Africa’s Lost Leader: South Africa’s Continental Role Since Apartheid.

• Student research stories featured by the BBC

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/student-research-stories-featured-by-the-bbc

  Two student-led studies published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics run by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have been featured on the BBC's '10 things we didn't know last week', which highlights research about interesting and...

• 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

• Leicester leads the way against COVID-19

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/covid-response

  A complete response The University of Leicester has been at the forefront of the conversation into universities’ reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Evidence-based empathy skills for healthcare teams

  https://le.ac.uk/empathy/study/healthcare-teams

  Find out more about the evidence-based empathy skills for healthcare teams course at the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare.