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• Psychology students complete placement in Sri Lanka

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-students-complete-mental-health-placement-in-sri-lanka

  Over the summer, two Leicester students travelled to Sri Lanka to undertake a voluntary Mental Health Placement with SLV, a graduate-led volunteering organisation, which runs psychology-focused placements in Sri Lanka and also in Bali, Indonesia.

• Research shows female fish judge males on DIY skills

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-shows-female-fish-judge-males-on-diy-skills

  Female fish judge males based on their ability to design nests best suited for the conditions of their environment, according to a new study by researchers from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour.

• Trio of honorary graduates recognised with Leicester awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/honorands1

  Journalist-turned-novelist Robert Harris, who was educated in Leicestershire as a boy, was awarded a Doctorate of Letters on Friday.

• University of Leicester experts to present pioneering space research at the 75th International Astronautical Congress

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/iac-presentations

  Three key members of the University’s Space Park Leicester team are presenting work at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan this week.

• The Centre for Regional and Local History’s New Library Spaces

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/blog/new-library-spaces

  Back in 2021 the Centre for English Local History moved out of Marc Fitch House at 3-5 Salisbury Road, where it had resided since 1988, to a new space on the University’s main campus.

• Clearing 2024: Leicester was ‘right choice all along’ for law graduate Erica

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/clearing-erica

  Law graduate Erica Naylor talks about her experience coming to the University of Leicester through clearing.

• Human fingerprint on forest disturbance patterns as viewed from space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/forest-structures

  A team of researchers from the UK and Europe used remote sensing data to describe the landscape structure of forest disturbances and assess how these differ across regions and under human influence

• Cerebral Autoregulation

  https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/imaging/chiasm/cerebral-autoregulation

  Impaired regulation of cerebral blood flow is implicated in a number of clinical conditions, such as ischaemic stroke, severe head injury, liver failure, diabetes, autonomic nervous system failure, carotid artery disease, dementia, pre-eclampsia and neonatal prematurity.

• Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/tree-rings-increasing-rainfall-seasonality-amazon

  Study involving University of Leicester researcher shows intensified seasonal cycles, with wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier, increasing the dangers of flooding and drought

• Leicester space scientists celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/jwst-launch

  Space scientists at the University of Leicester are celebrating the launch of the most advanced space observatory ever built. After 25 years and a $10bn (£7.