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• 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.

• Introducing SKYLARK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/26/introducing-skylark/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 October 2020 The SKYLARK rocket dominates our newly-revamped foyer in the School of Physics and Astronomy. This blog post provides some of the history of Leicester’s involvement in the SKYLARK project.

• #SocialHistoryAssociationAnnualConference2016. By Emma Battell Lowman

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/04/19/socialhistoryassociationannualconference2016/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on April 19, 2016   In late March 2016, the Social History Association (SHA) met for its annual conference .

• 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.

• World Digital Preservation Day 2022 blog

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/10/19/world-digital-preservation-day-2022/

  Blog post describing the work done at the University of Leicester to increase ability and capacity for permanent preservation of born-digital material (websites, Sharepoint sites, email and word and pdf documents).

• Nobel Prize: How Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysic

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/07/nobel-prize-how-penrose-genzel-and-ghez-helped-put-black-holes-at-the-centre-of-modern-astrophysics/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 7 October 2020 The award of this year’s Nobel prize in physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez will be greeted with enormous pleasure by physicists and astronomers worldwide.

• Fellowship for University of Leicester scientist to support smart data for urban analytics

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/fellowship-scientist-smart-data-urban-analytics

  Dr Stef De Sabbata has received one of 15 new Fellowships from Smart Data Research UK worth £200,000 to support integrating smart data on population, health, housing, mobility into ‘digital fingerprints’

• Sex workers in research study call for greater legal protections against sexual violence

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/sex-worker-access-justice-sexual-violence

  Researchers from the University of Leicester, University of Strathclyde, Queen's University, University of Nevada and University of Otago interviewed more than 700 sex workers.

• Wounds to the lower jaw and right cheek (injuries 7-8)

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/injuries/skull-7-8

  There were wounds to the jaw and right cheek which were possibly symbolic ‘punishment blows’ delivered to the King’s body after death.

• Dancing through life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/dancing-through-life

  A former professional dancer, Dr Heidi Ashton from the University’s School of Management has revealed some of the realities of working as a dancer in a new video interview.