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National award for Josh’s out of this world bakes with National Space Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/national-award-josh-bakes-space-centre
Instagram series Mission Bake, a collaboration between Dr Josh Smalley and the National Space Centre, has won first place at the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards
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Literary experts and historians from around the world gather in Leicester to celebrate George Eliot’s bicentenary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-george-eliot
George Eliot George Eliot illustration|The University of Leicester will this week (Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 July) play host to an international conference marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist George Eliot.
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Super rare and venomous centipede found in University of Leicester academic’s home
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/centipede
Explore the intriguing discovery of Scutigera coleoptrata, the fastest-moving centipede in the world, in Nottinghamshire, UK.
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Over £300,000 funding to fuel university boost to region’s innovation ecosystem
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/innovation-ecosystem-funding
University of Leicester to lead a partnership with Loughborough University and De Montfort University and Leicester Start Ups to benefit innovation within Leicester and Leicestershire
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Research group including University of Leicester astronomers receives one of the world’s largest research prizes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/astronomers-world-largest-research-prize
ENGRAVE group, which includes University of Leicester researchers, recognised with inaugural Into Change Award, worth DKK 8 million and awarded by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
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Leicester joins British Academy’s first regional Early Career Researcher Network
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/early-career-researcher-network
The University of Leicester has today (Thursday) announced that it has joined the British Academy’s first regional Early Career Researcher Network – a pilot programme aimed at UK-based postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
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New partnership between Leicester’s universities offers students chance to improve skills for less
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/pg-scholarship
Graduates in Leicester will be able to take discounted further study at either of the city’s universities thanks to a new joint offer.
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Glenfield’s Judith is first UK participant in women-only heart surgery study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/heart-surgery-iwd
The first patient in the UK to take part in a women-only cardiac surgery research trial underwent a life-changing heart operation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust recently.
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Ukrainian History Unearthed in East Midlands Oral History Archive’s Polish Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/03/ukrainian-history-unearthed-in-east-midlands-oral-history-archives-polish-collection/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on September 3, 2025 By Iona Kerstin Volynets September 05, 2025 Content warning: This article includes mentions of massacres, war, labour camps, death, and illness.
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Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester: The School of Criminology and S
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/page/2/
The School of Criminology and Sociology: follow us to find out who we are and what we do.