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Rolls-Royce deploy nuclear power experts to Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/rolls-royce
Dr Gary Jones, Head of Manufacturing Innovation at Rolls-Royce, said: “Our presence at Space Park Leicester is a really good opportunity for our people that are specifically working on the Space Programme to immerse themselves in all things space.
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The rocking horse: a classic object of childhood?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/rocking-horse
Read the article "The rocking horse: a classic object of childhood?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/hoodie
Read the article "The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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University of Leicester recognised in UK's Best Breakthroughs list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-university-of-leicester-recognised-in-uks-best-breakthroughs-list
UK's Best Breakthrough List Sir Alec Jeffreys|Discovery of DNA Fingerprinting celebrated for transformational impact on everyday lives The discovery of DNA fingerprinting from the University of Leicester has today been named as one of the UK’s 100 best breakthroughs for...
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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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Engineering and Archaeology researchers to join forces against climate crisis at international conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/engineering-the-past
An interdisciplinary team of researchers will look to identify ways of tackling the climate crisis at an international conference hosted at the University of Leicester this March.
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University of Leicester supports Government pledge to end victim NDA use
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/end-victim-nda
The University of Leicester has supported a call to action from the Department of Education, by signing a pledge to end the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) when dealing with student and staff complaints of sexual misconduct, bullying and other unacceptable behaviour.
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Tectonic shift in Southern Ocean caused dramatic ancient cooling event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/antarctica-tectonics
The study was led by Dr Isabel Sauermilch, researcher at the University of Tasmania and Utrecht University, and shows that these events were much more closely linked than previously thought.
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Transforming scholarship
https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/impact/transforming-scholarship
The Centre for Hate Studies is renowned for undertaking pioneering and transformative research.
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Reflections on the AdvanceHE Teaching and Learning Conference
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/09/28/reflections-on-the-advancehe-teaching-and-learning-conference/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on September 28, 2023 By (l-r in image) Jess Ritchie, Laura Nevay, Jo Murphy & Ben Ellis On 5th July, we attended the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference at Keele University,...