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• Researcher hopes to find new treatment for people with Cystic Fibrosis using phage therapy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/cystic-fibrosis-trust-bacteriophages-award-leicester

  University of Leicester researcher Dr Jessica Lewis has been awarded part of a £1.3 million pot of funding to explore bacteriophage treatments for people with cystic fibrosis

• University of Leicester secures funding to preserve the Midlands’ at-risk sound archives 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/sound-of-midlands-lottery-funding

  University of Leicester secures National Lottery Heritage Fund backing to preserve thousands of at-risk Midlands sound recordings, safeguarding local stories, music and oral histories for future generations.

• Roman Leicester comes to life in city-wide family festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/roman-around-leicester-festival-family

  Roman Around Leicester brings the city’s Roman past to life with free family activities, hands-on archaeology and creative workshops across Leicester’s Cultural Quarter.

• Physics and Astronomy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/author/paul_mcmillan/

  Centenary celebrations Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 21 May 2025 The first students to study physics at what was then University College, Leicester were enrolled in 1925. A class of 10 students were enrolled, and a single lecturer appointed.

• Launching ‘Black History Month’ Newsletters

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/26/launching-black-history-month-newsletters/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 October 2020 The Postgraduate Team have launched a new series of Black History Month newsletters for the School of Physics and Astronomy. Emma Thomas explains the inspirations behind this effort.

• Charlie Hebdo attacks: first anniversary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/charlie-hebdo-attacks-first-anniversary/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Twitter coverage of the anniversary The University of Oxford has translated and made free on the Internet a book on tolerance. With extracts from key French philosophers and writers.

• New website highlights our local impact

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/new-csr-website-highlights-universitys-local-impact

  The University of Leicester contributes significantly to the city of Leicester, the surrounding county of Leicestershire and further afield.

• The Convict Hulks of Bermuda

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/06/26/the-convict-hulks-of-bermuda/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 26, 2014 I have long been interested in Bermuda. Like the island that I studied for my PhD thesis, Mauritius, it has no indigenous population.

• Research

  https://le.ac.uk/cria/research

  CRÍA researches art institutions and the idea of art collections, from the most well-known galleries and museums to independent studios and shows.

• Leicester to host first UK screening of acclaimed documentary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/salt-in-my-soul

  Diane Shader Smith, an author in her own right and editor of Mallory’s posthumous book Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life which inspired the film, said: “Mallory was a gifted storyteller who created poetry out of prosaic experiences.