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• Arts Council England renews support for Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre with £210,800 annual funding

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/ace-funding-attenborough-arts

  Attenborough Arts Centre has its status as National Portfolio Organisation renewed by Arts Council England.

• Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing

  Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.

• Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/sub-saharan-africas-knowledge-economy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 Geonet is a new project from the Oxford Internet Institute.   It is mapping  ICT developments and analysing their potential for economic and social development.

• Immersive exhibition sheds new light on Calke Abbey’s ‘isolated’ family and gets people talking about loneliness and isolation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/01-calke-abbey

  The installation of the interpretation of the library as it was constructed.

• Joe Orton: Leicester’s literary anarchist

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/literary-anarchist

  Dr Emma Parker explores the cultural significance of literary anarchist and Leicester native Joe Orton, over a half a century since his death.

• Tree-mendous effort from Tom and his volunteers helps transform Leicester’s leafy oasis

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/arboretum

  A green oasis of calm nestled away in suburban Leicester is benefiting from the work of one University of Leicester man and his small band of volunteers.

• UNESCO’s inaugural World Radio Day.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/17/unescos-inaugural-world-radio-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2012 Held on 13th February.  Find general statements and news on the website: http://www.worldradioday.

• New species revealed after 25 years of study on ‘inside out’ fossil – and named after discoverer’s mum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/new-species-inside-out-fossil-named-after-mum

  Study from University of Leicester describes a new species of fossil that is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved and saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years

• The EU’s most digitally advanced nations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/the-eus-most-digitally-advanced-nations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 Denmark is the most digitally advanced nation According to the new Digital Society and Economy Index   from the European Commission which  measures progress in EU nations.

• Leicester’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah appointed Chair of Trustees for The Conversation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/conversation

  University of Leicester President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, has been appointed Chair to the UK Board of Trustees to independent media network The Conversation. Professor Canagarajah previously joined the board in May 2020.