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Researcher wins Newton Fund Grant for Disasters and Development Research Network
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/researcher-wins-newton-fund-grant-for-disasters-and-development-research-network
A new project led by Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong from the Department of Media and Communication seeks to explore how media and communication technologies can be used during disasters as well as promote social welfare in the developing world.
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Leicester scientists in discovery of new type of plant
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-scientists-in-discovery-of-new-type-of-plant
Dr James Higgins from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology has been involved in the discovery of a new type of plant growing in Shetland. Scientists at the University of Stirling discovered the plant – with its evolution only having occurred in the last 200 years.
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How science got women wrong explored by award-winning science journalist
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/how-science-got-women-wrong-explored-by-award-winning-science-journalist
The long history of gender bias in science research and the work being done to correct it will be explored in a talk by award-winning science journalist Angela Saini (pictured).
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Solid Earth
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/solid-earth
Solid Earth research at Leicester concerns all aspects of the structure, composition and dynamics of the solid earth, including volcanoes, tectonics, geophysics, igneous and metamorphic geochemistry and mineral resources (which includes the Centre for Sustainable Resource...
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Stoneygate Trust and University of Leicester combine to create pioneering new Centre for Empathic Healthcare
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/empathic-health
The Stoneygate Trust and University of Leicester have combined to create a pioneering new Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare.
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Roy O Davies
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/roy-o-davies
We have learned, with regret, of the death of Emeritus Professor Roy O Davies, who taught and researched Pure Mathematics at Leicester for many years. Roy Osborne Davies was born in Uttoxeter in 1927.
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Unwell or Unwanted? The Mental Health of Western Australia’s Convict Population
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/10/17/unwell-or-unwanted-the-mental-health-of-western-australias-convict-population/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 17, 2016 By Kellie Moss Western Australia welcomed the transportation of convicts in 1850 as a solution to the economic problems which had affected the colony since its foundation as a free settlement in 1829.
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Astrophysics Seminar – 17th Feb 3pm. JJ Hermes: White dwarf variability as seen from space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/02/11/astrophysics-seminar-17th-feb-3pm-jj-hermes-white-dwarf-variability-as-seen-from-space/
Posted by ab520 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 11 February 2021 Please find a teams link in the Astrophysics Group > Seminars area. Abstract: White dwarfs have been used as flux standards for decades, thanks to their staid simplicity.
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Podcast celebrates 10 years of major local health study with global impact
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/exceed-podcast
Researchers behind a major health study involving 11,000 patients across the city and county have highlighted the benefits it has brought over the past 10 years
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Catherine Sargent - International exhibitions with the V&A
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/catherine-sargent
Museum Studies graduate Catherine Sargent talks about life and her career after getting her degree from the University of Leicester.