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• Leicester receives record Turing Scheme funding

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/turing

  Having secured its largest-ever single grant for overseas mobility in 2023, Leicester has once more successfully bid for Turing funding to support outbound student mobility.

• Dennis Smith

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/dennis-smith

  We have learned with sadness of the recent death of Professor Dennis Smith, who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1970s. Professor Smith passed away in February 2024.

• Academic presents research on silence in Japans second language classrooms

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/academic-presents-research-on-silence-in-japan2019s-second-language-classrooms

  Dr Jim King from the School of Arts has recently presented research in London to an audience of Japan experts and educationalists into why Japanese students are often reluctant to speak in a second language in classes in Japan.

• Launch of telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/launch-of-telescope-for-detecting-optical-signals-from-gravitational-waves

  A state-of-the-art telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves - built and operated by an international research collaboration, led by the Universities of Warwick and Monash - has been officially launched.

• Garry Buck

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/garry-buck

  The University has learned with regret of the death of hospitality van driver Garry Buck. Garry’s job with LSP involved delivering to buildings right across the campus so he came into contact with many staff and was well-loved by all.

• Breasts: a new commodity?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/breasts

  Read the article "Breasts: a new commodity?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• University awards and programmes (5.6 - 5.17)

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-5/2025-26-study/programmes

  Learn more about awards and programmes in Senate Regulation 5.

• Leicester scientists reveal new insights into the evolution of our solar system

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/asteroid

  Scientists in Leicester have been involved in a ground-breaking study of the most primitive building blocks of our solar system.

• Participants’ reflections

  https://le.ac.uk/dons-yardies-posses/network-participants/reflections

  Reflections on participating in Jamaican Organised Crime: Aesthetics and Style, Leicester, 2018 Tracian Meikle (PhD candidate, University of Amsterdam) I have been doing my PhD for nearly five years now, which means that I have been to many conferences, symposiums, workshops,...

• Liven your lectures – engage your students with an active learning approach

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/09/liven-your-lectures-engage-your-students-with-an-active-learning-approach/

  Posted by Rachel Tunstall in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 9, 2018   Active learning is an umbrella term for learning and teaching methods which put the student in charge of their own learning through meaningful activities.