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  • Expert comment Has the Olympic Games caught up with the modern world

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-comment-has-the-olympic-games-caught-up-with-the-modern-world

    Despite greater representation of women in the Rio Olympics than in previous years, anachronisms and gender divisions still remain, according to John Williams from the Department of Sociology.

  • National award for Queer Heritage and Collections Network

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/queer-heritage

    A partnership supporting museums and heritage bodies to reveal and publicly present LGBTQ+ histories – of which the University of Leicester is a founding member – has won a prestigious national award.

  • Convicts, Indigenous People and Labour

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/06/08/convicts-indigenous-people-labour/

    Postgraduate Carceral Archipelago panel on "Convicts, Indigenous People and Labour"

  • Free public open day at Bradgate Park

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/free-public-open-day-at-bradgate-park

    Members of the public are invited to learn about the latest archaeological discoveries being made by the University of Leicester’s Archaeology Fieldschool at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire, during a FREE family Open Day on Sunday 2 July between 11.00am – 4.00pm.

  • Wellcome awards Leicester scientist £2m to study gene regulation in early development

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/wellcome-award-leicester-scientist-gene-regulation

    A University of Leicester scientist has been awarded £2m for research which could lead to advances in understanding and treating developmental disorders.

  • Planetary Atmospheres

    https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/planetary-science/planetary-atmospheres

    Planetary atmospheres exhibit an incredible diversity across the worlds of our Solar System, from the enormous hydrogen-rich atmospheres of the Gas Giants, to the terrestrial atmospheres of Venus, Earth, Mars and Titan, to the tenuous and thin air surrounding worlds like...

  • Historic female firsts captured on canvas

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/historic-female-firsts-captured-on-canvas-1

    Today (5 March) the University of Leicester has recognised, on its walls and in its paintings, the contribution of three women who have, through their work and lives helped to create the University.

  • Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-thames-molluscs

    In the last few decades, the life of London’s River Thames has been transformed.

  • Worlds biggest study of genetics of lung health and disease allows scientists to predict chance of developing COPD

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/world2019s-biggest-study-of-genetics-of-lung-health-and-disease-allows-scientists-to-predict-chance-of-developing-copd

    The world’s biggest study into an individual’s genetic make-up and the risk of developing lung disease could allow scientists to more accurately ‘predict’ - based on genes and smoking - your chance of developing COPD, a deadly disease which is the third commonest cause of...

  • Glynis Wright MBE

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

    Dr Glynis Wright MBE is an alumna of the University of Leicester and a well-known businesswoman and lawyer who made a career U-turn at the age of 40 to train for the legal profession.

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