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• Leicester schools and community invited to celebrate Earth Day at Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/earth-day-space-park

  The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) at Space Park Leicester is hosting a range of activities for both local schools and the broader Leicester community on 22 April

• The Summer Intern – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/09/05/aysha-scans-the-summer-intern/

  Our Summer Intern, Aysha, recounts her time on the Arch-I-Scan Project.

• A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.

• Leicester Professor wins Sir Paul Curran Award for public writing on empathy research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/howick-conversation-award-empathy

  Professor Jeremy Howick, a researcher at the University of Leicester, has been awarded the prestigious Sir Paul Curran Award by The Conversation

• MEPs in the 2014-19 European Parliament: The Rise of Euroscepticism?

  https://le.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/previous-research-projects/the-rise-of-euroscepticism

  The project examines the range of views represented in the European Parliament, changes in mainstream Members of the European Parliaments’ (MEPs) views over time, MEPs’ attitudes to democracy in the EU and the UK’s future relationship with the EU.

• BBC Radio 1XTRA special mention for up-and-coming music artist from our University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/bbc1xtra-special-mention-for-up-and-coming-music-artist-from-our-university

  A student at our University has been recognised for his music on a BBC Radio 1XTRA radio show. Yesterday evening, DJ Sian Anderson hosted the ‘online find’ segment of her show- a short slot dedicated to shining a light on new talent in the music industry.

• Annabelle Sreberny

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/annabelle-sreberny

  The University has learned, with sadness, of the death of Professor Annabelle Sreberny, former Director of the Centre for Mass Communication Research. Annabelle Sreberny was born on 5 September 1949 to parents who had come to Britain as Jewish refugees.

• Leicester Innovation Hub

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/alumni-newsletter/mba-edition-one-winter-2021/leicester-innovation-hub

  Since opening in 2017 the Leicester Innovation Hub Team have been working together with businesses to provide incubation space, innovation support and access to facilities and funding for specialist technical and academic expertise.

• Alberto Fernández Carbajal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/author/afc9/

  Alberto is a Leverhulme Fellow at School of English, University of Leicester, where he previously was Teaching Fellow in Postcolonial Literature.

• Sami Zubaida

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.