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Fellowship award will allow Leicester researcher to launch genetic study of lung disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/fellowship-leicester-researcher-genetic-lung-disease
A University of Leicester researcher has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Career Development Fellowship to lead a groundbreaking study into the genomics of bronchiectasis.
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Blog 3: Items of Interest. Guest post by Jenni Hunt.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/04/09/blog-3-items-of-interest-chosen-by-jenni-hunt/
Third blog of 3 by Jenni Hunt, temporary archive assistant, about the items she found most interesting during the listing work she has been doing.
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University of Leicester and Alsama Project to establish a world-first certification to support displaced youth in accessing higher education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/leicester-alsama-project-world-first-certification-displaced-youth
New certification will enable displaced youth to apply to higher education institutions worldwide and seek employment, supporting students in overcoming disrupted and/or informal learning due to conflict or disaster
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Satisfaction with working from home is distinct from job satisfaction, new study shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/working-from-home-satisfaction
Research at the Universities of Leicester and East Anglia reveals that Influences on the job satisfaction of homeworkers are no different from those normal associated with it; but influences on their satisfaction with homeworking are distinct from these.
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What matters most in acute care?
https://le.ac.uk/gem/resources/outcomes/acute-care
This project aims to understand what matters to older people with frailty receiving acute care, and to develop methods for measuring these outcome goals.
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Where Empires Meet
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/05/03/where-empires-meet/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on May 3, 2015 In a previous blog , I wrote on the theme of the politics of comparison, of the connected history of circulation and mobility that underpins the CArchipelago project team’s approach to the historiography,...
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Tango for beginners
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/04/05/beginners-tango/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on April 5, 2018 While waiting to be admitted to the room for their first ‘Tango for beginners’ class, participants chatted about their reasons for being there.
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE appointed Chancellor of the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maggie-aderin-pocock
Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, has joined the University of Leicester as its new Chancellor today (1 March).
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jbridges: Page 6
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/6/
This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards...I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions.
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Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3328
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