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• Student life in the 1980s: what can we learn from Students’ Union handbooks?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/01/05/student-life-in-the-1980s-what-can-we-learn-from-students-union-handbooks/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on January 5, 2024 Guest post by Jess Pascal, student volunteer. Hello, my name is Jess Pascal and I have been volunteering in the archives for the last two months.

• Monitoring Jupiter’s Atmospheric Heartbeat over Three Decades

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2020/08/24/monitoring-jupiters-atmospheric-heartbeat-over-three-decades/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on August 24, 2020 Long-term infrared monitoring of Jupiter’s equatorial stratosphere over three decades revealed a natural cycle of variable winds and temperatures.

• Shedding light on historical stories of displacement and forced migration

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/shedding-light-on-historical-stories-of-displacement-and-forced-migration

  During Leicester’s 2018 Journeys Festival international, where the creative talents of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists are celebrated, the University of Leicester’s DICE unit is hosting an event entitled ‘Reckoning with Refugeedom.

• World leaders announced in support for HeForShe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/world-leaders-announced-in-support-for-heforshe

  World leaders and new universities and companies have now been announced – alongside the University of Leicester – for the UN’s HeForShe campaign.

• Wildfires across the Americas have been supercharged by climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/wildfires-americas-supercharged-climate-change

  Study: Warming increased burning in Pantanal, Chiquitano and Amazon, releasing billions of tonnes of CO2, while climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s deadly fires by at least 2-3 times

• On multi-sited research and mono-sited (nationalist) memory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/05/26/on-multi-sited-research-and-mono-sited-nationalist-memory/

  Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on May 26, 2015 Addressing convict transportation – the key feature in the Carceral Archipelago project – implies multi-sited research, that is, research in archives located in different places (and countries/continents).

• Expert opinions cover Brexit Michael Gove Victorian dismemberment football and US nuclear command

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-michael-gove-and-victorian-dismemberment

  Professor Panicos Demetriades from the Department of Economics has written an article for Think: Leicester giving his initial reaction to the Brexit vote.

• University of Leicester alumnus releases hit film documentary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/delhi-wedding

  He continued: “The University of Leicester provided me the foundations to so many skills I possess today, and taught me so much even beyond the legal sphere which I studied within.

• Physics and Astronomy Blog: Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/page/22/

  Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in the School of Physics and Astronomy.

• £1.2 million funding to investigate mental health legacy of colonialism in Guyana’s jails

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-mental-health-legacy-of-colonialism-in-guyanas-jails

  Funding for University of Leicester project announced under the ESRC-AHRC GCRF Mental Health 2017 Call