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• Professor Alison Snape

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/council/membership/alison-snape

  Professor Alison Snape is one of the elected Senate representatives on Council appointed in June 2025. Professor Snape is currently the Head of the School of Biological Sciences.

• National Civil War Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/national-civil-war-centre

  The Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester and the National Civil War Centre (NCWC) have been working together to transform the public history of the British and Irish Civil Wars since 2012, when Newark Museum began its transformation, with the help...

• New test could help preserve endangered gibbon populations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gibbons-twycross-genetic-endangered

  A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable Gibbon populations from extinction

• The “Wall of Women” visits the School of Physics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/03/20/the-wall-of-women-visits-the-school-of-physics/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 20 March 2020 The School of Physics celebrates International Women’s Day Thank you to all the amazing women who contribute to this department! International Women’s Day is a day on which the social, cultural,...

• Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/

  Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...

• Richard III College Court and University arts centre celebrated at regional tourism awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/richard-iii-and-university-arts-centre-celebrated-at-regional-tourism-awards

  Gold awards at this year’s Leicester and Leicestershire Excellence in Tourism Awards have been presented to several organisations and projects that involve our University.

• The Paths to Equal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/the-paths-to-equal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The Paths to Equal  – new twin indeces on women’s empowerment and gender equality based on data for 114 countries, including data on the progress towards the Sustainable...

• Caring for our Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on August 6, 2015 Visitors to Special Collections often ask how we preserve the rare books, manuscripts and archives in our collection. Much of what we do could be described as preventative care.

• Brexit planning now urgent as leave date looms

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2019/02/20/brexit-planning-now-urgent-at-leave-date-looms/

  Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on February 20, 2019   By Rachael Elliott, Head of Thought Leadership, Business Continuity Institute & Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, University of Leicester   When the referendum result was...

• A World Connected: Economy, Wellbeing and Sustainability since 1945

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2329

  Module code: HS2329 Why was there a population explosion, and what could be done about it? Did global living standards become more or less equal? Did western countries ‘deindustrialise’? How and why did the role of government change? This module introduces you to the...