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• Healthy Citizens? Migrant Identity and Constructions of Health in Post War Australia

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/healthy-citizens

  Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities October 2014 – June 2018 Dr Eureka Henrich Psychological and epidemiological frames dominate studies of migrant health in Australia, resulting in understandings of migrants as either possessing a physical health...

• Charles Phythian-Adams

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/charles-phythian-adams

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Emeritus Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Head of the Department of English Local History (now the Centre for Regional and Local History), who passed away on 13 May 2025.

• New species revealed after 25 years of study on ‘inside out’ fossil – and named after discoverer’s mum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/new-species-inside-out-fossil-named-after-mum

  Study from University of Leicester describes a new species of fossil that is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved and saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years

• Cider, the golden global glug.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/10/07/cider-the-golden-global-glug/

  Posted by in Consuming Authenticities on October 7, 2015 Ethnographic research with craft cider-makers suggests that part of the authenticity of a craft cider derives from its staying true to the traditions of cider, as opposed to a “commercial cider”, a category often used...

• New species of Jurassic pterosaur discovered on the Isle of Skye

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/pterosaur-ceoptera

  Team including University of Leicester palaeontologist have studied a fossil that suggests the flying reptiles developed earlier and were more numerous than thought

• Literary experts and historians from around the world gather in Leicester to celebrate George Eliot’s bicentenary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-george-eliot

  George Eliot George Eliot illustration|The University of Leicester will this week (Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 July) play host to an international conference marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist George Eliot.

• Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning

  Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct ‘fossil monster’ that lived half a billion years ago, filling a gap in our understanding of the evolution of arthropods such as insects...

• Major heart attack study reveals ‘survival paradox’: Frail men at higher risk of death than women despite better treatment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/heart-attack-frailty-sex-leicester

  Pioneering research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to heart attack care, adding critical nuance to the debate on sex disparities

• School of English Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 3

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/page/3/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Student placement in Special Collections, Week 5-6

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/19/student-placement-in-special-collections-week-5-6/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on September 19, 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 .