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• Project exploring Stonehenge’s elusive relationship with the Moon nominated for Museums + Heritage Award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/stonehenge-moon-museums-heritage-awards

  A project exploring Stonehenge’s little-known relationship with the Moon has been nominated for a Museums + Heritage Award.

• Leicestershire’s universities invite residents to apply for community-focused research projects

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/leicestershire-universities-residents-skills-experiences-community-focused-research-projects

  Innovative local thinkers are being invited to apply for paid, full-time research projects tackling key issues like fuel poverty, retrofitting homes, health inequalities and flooding.

• 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.

• Rugby star’s inspirational journey from training ground catastrophe sees him honoured by the University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/matt-hampson

  A former Leicester Tigers rugby player who was paralysed in an England U21 training session has been honoured by the University of Leicester for helping others who have suffered similar catastrophic injuries through sport.

• COVID-19 treatment trialed at Leicester’s Hospitals shown to reduce deaths in sickest patients by one-fifth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/covid-recovery

  John, a self-employed roofer, was approached by a research nurse to take part in the RECOVERY trial, where he was assigned the Regeneron monoclonal antibody combination. The treatment was delivered through an intravenous drip, which took about an hour to enter his body.

• What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles

  But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.

• Chongqing Medical University - University of Leicester Bachelor’s Programme of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Science

  https://le.ac.uk/enterprise/global-partnerships/cqmu

  The Chongqing Medical University - University of Leicester Bachelor’s Programme of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Science is a Joint Education Programme with the approval of the China Ministry of Education.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.