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• Astronomers look ahead to first light from JWST

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/jwst-time-allocation

  • Professor Nial Tanvir and Dr Rhaana Starling are co-investigators (co-Is) of a programme which will use spectroscopy to map the distribution of elements formed by gamma-ray bursts.

• Three wins for University of Leicester at Leicestershire Live Innovation Awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/awards

  The University of Leicester has scooped three award wins at the flagship 2023 LeicestershireLive Innovation Awards.

• Bioscience departments receive recognition for tackling gender inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/bioscience-departments-receive-recognition-for-tackling-gender-inequality

  Our University has been further recognised for our commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education with the announcement that two of our biosciences departments have received Athena SWAN awards.

• Leicester VC to reflect on Century of Change in Lit&Phil lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/vc-litphil

  University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, has spoken of the ‘tremendous honour’ at being invited to deliver a prestigious public lecture to the body which helped establish the University more than a Century ago.

• EAP Teacher Development Programme

  https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/courses-for-teachers/eap

  EAP Teacher's course offered to teachers by the ELTU.

• Researchers publish results of largest ever study on postnatal depression in British South Asian mothers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/postnatal-depression

  An extensive trial , supported by the University of Leicester, into postnatal depression in South Asian women has found that tailored support can make a difference to their recovery

• Leading light in auroras to give prestigious astronomy lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/provan-aurora-lecture

  Dr Gabrielle Provan from the University of Leicester is to give the Royal Astronomical Society’s James Dungey Lecture, focusing on the auroral light displays on Earth and beyond

• Exposure to air pollution in pregnancy and early life has important impacts on lung function in early childhood

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-pollution-during-pregnancy

  New research by the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CESH) at the University of Leicester indicates that exposure to air pollution from road traffic as early as the first trimester of pregnancy and in early life is associated with small but significant...

• Major investment in doctoral students to support next generation of researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/doctoral-funding

  University of Leicester is a partner in two programmes to benefit from £500 million investment in postgraduate training nationally

• Space scientists look to face down climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/sprint-funding

  Two pioneering projects led by space scientists at the University of Leicester have been awarded a share of research funding by the UK Space Agency.