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• University partners in new world-class skills centre for automotive sector

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/university-partners-in-new-world-class-skills-centre-for-automotive-sector

  Our University is partnering with HORIBA MIRA and other Midlands-based education institutions to build the MIRA Technology Institute – a new world-class skills centre for the automotive sector to be based at MIRA Technology Park.

• Get to know your brain at Neuroscience events for Brain Awareness Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/neuroscience-research-demonstrated-for-brain-awareness-day-1

  The University will be hosting two events for Brain Awareness Day on Wednesday 15 March. GCSE and A-Level students are invited to attend an afternoon of activities which will explain a range of brain research between 12.30-3.30pm followed by an evening event for all from 6pm.

• Leicester launches HeForShes GetFree Tour

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/leicester-launches-heforshe2019s-getfree-tour

  Following UN Women’s announcement, the University is to be the launchpad for the inaugural HeForShe #GetFree Tour to campus for a vital discussion on the importance of gender equality on Tuesday 29 September.

• University project provides boost for womens empowerment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-project-provides-boost-for-womens-empowerment

  A major international project investigating women academics’ careers in public universities in Pakistan has shattered preconceptions about women-only universities and identified them as progressive spaces that play a major role in developing women personally and...

• University involved in project to help children with asthma

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-involved-in-project-to-help-children-with-asthma

  Owlstone Medical, a diagnostics company, has announced it has developed and received CE mark approval for a paediatric version of the company’s disease breathalyzer, ReCIVA™, which is now being used in EMBER (the East Midlands Breathomics Pathology Node).

• 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.

• University of Leicester champions role of humanities in space sector

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/humanising-space

  A pioneering series of seminars showcasing humanities, social science and arts research within the space sector will be hosted by the University of Leicester.

• Leicester signs up to the Turing University Network

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/turing

  The University of Leicester’s research in the areas of data science and artificial intelligence has been given a boost by the news it has become one of 29 new members of the Alan Turing Institute’s university network.

• Diabetes researcher listed as a top ethnic minority health leader in England

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/diabetes-research

  A Leicester-based professor known as ‘Mr South Asian diabetes’ has been named as one of England’s most prominent individuals from an ethnic minority background making a profound difference in the NHS.

• Scientists involved in discovery of origins of ghost particles in space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/scientists-involved-in-discovery-of-origins-of-ghost-particles-in-space

  Scientists from our University have played a key role in a momentous discovery about the origins of ‘ghostly’ particles from the distant universe that bombard Earth from billions of light years away.