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• Leicester explores ‘our working lives’ as Festival of Social Science returns

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/festival-of-social-science-working-lives-leicester

  Explore free events at the University of Leicester’s Festival of Social Science 2025, themed around ‘our working lives’.

• Project investigates new proteinfolding process

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/project-investigates-new-2018protein-folding2019-process

  A new research project from our Department of Chemistry aims to overcome a fundamental problem in biochemistry, potentially allowing us to investigate the underlying causes of Alzheimer’s disease.

• Life-saving equipment made publicly available

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/life-saving-equipment-made-publicly-available

  Our University has installed its first community public access defibrillators (cpads) which are available for use by staff, students and members of the public in an emergency.

• Five reasons why we need to look at childbirth and the media

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/five-reasons-why-we-need-to-look-at-childbirth-and-the-media

  An academic from our University has discussed ways in which the media shapes society’s perceptions, anxieties and emotions arising out of birth.

• Swirlonic super particles baffle physicists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/swirlonic

  In recent years, active, self-propelled particles have received growing interest amongst the scientific community.  Examples of active particles and their systems are numerous and very diverse, ranging from bacterium films to flocks of birds or human crowds.

• Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum

  What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...

• Entrepreneurship and SMEs

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/finance-governance-and-enterprise/entrepreneurship-and-smes

  The strength of the SME sector is often perceived as a barometer of a country's economic health.

• Radiographer lecturer receives MBE at Windsor Castle

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/claire-robinson-mbe

  Radiography senior lecturer Dr Claire Robinson beams with pride having received an MBE for services to forensic investigation.

• World Press Freedom day is celebrated annually on the 3rd May

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/world-press-freedom-day-is-celebrated-annually-on-the-3rd-may/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 2018 is the 25 th anniversary and the focus is upon the rule of law. Find out more about the events on the UNESCO official website.

• Olympus Cytological imaging system

  https://le.ac.uk/cbs/facilities/aif/equipment/specialised-imaging/olympus-cytological

  Get more information about the Olympus Cytological imaging system housed in the Advanced Imaging Facility.