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• Researchers recognised for public engagement skills

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/researchers-recognised-for-public-engagement-skills

  Winners of a competition that challenged our researchers to summarise their research in a mere three minutes have been announced.

• Athena SWAN

  https://le.ac.uk/ggb/about/athena-swan

  The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester is committed to providing a good working environment for its staff, and in 2016 was successful in achieving an Athena SWAN Bronze award.

• Leicester researcher contributes to space arts odyssey

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-researcher-contribute-to-space-arts-odyssey

  ESA and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (pictured), with the BBK Foundation, are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Spanish arts centre with a performance of Chasmata, a journey to Mars through contemporary art, music and architecture.

• Hear from our PhD students

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/research-degrees/testimonials

  Hear from some of our research students as they discuss their experience studying and researching with us in Archaeology and Ancient History.

• Dr Primrose Freestone

  https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/alumni/primrose-freestone

  Find out more about Dr Primrose Freestone, alumna of the University of Leicester Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. She has been at Leicester University since an undergraduate student and is an Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology and Inventor.

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 113 May

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-1-13-may

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing how the University of Leicester is among the first institutions in the world to join the UN programme HeForShe.

• Research highlights incredible insects during National Insect Week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/2018national-insect-week2019-creeps-up-on-us-once-more

  The feature, revisiting four occasions where insects played an instrumental role in University research, can be found here Insects, bugs, creepy-crawlies - there are some who say they are not always the cutest critters, but they can certainly be one of the most useful and...

• Wiesam Essa

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/wiesam-essa

  We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Dr Wiesam Essa, of Al-Aqsa University in Palestine.

• The Planeterrella: an amazing polar light simulator

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/outreach/the-planeterrella

  The University of Leicester is home to a Planeterrella - a small vacuum chamber within which we recreate auroral lights around magnetic spheres, and visualise cosmic phenomena. Find out how your school can arrange a booking.

• DNA and family history explored in public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

  The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.