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• From council estate to House of Lords – race equality campaigner is honoured by University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/simon-woolley

  A race equality campaigner who rose from humble beginnings on a Leicester council estate to sit in the House of Lords has been honoured by the University of Leicester.

• New board appointed to advise on future space innovation in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/space-advisory-board-innovation

  A new board has been created which will further strengthen Leicester’s pivotal role at the heart of UK space innovation. Leicester is one of the world’s most active cities for space research and has contributed to space exploration for more than six decades.

• Leicester engineers to stress test new technology to store waste heat

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/energy-storage

  A Europe-wide project developing a new electrothermal energy storage system involves materials experts at the University of Leicester and will take advantage of phase change materials (PCMs) to efficiently store heat

• Conference Report: Forced Labour, Confinement and Represssion: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/02/09/conference-report-forced-labour-confinement-and-represssion-european-imperial-and-post-colonial-perspectives/

  Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on February 9, 2017   Two weeks ago, a joint workshop on ‘Forced labour, confinement and repression: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial Perspectives’ was hosted by The Carceral Archipelago project and The Stanley Burton...

• Ros Henwood

  https://le.ac.uk/chaplaincy/about-us/meet-the-team/ros-henwood

  Find out more about Ros Henwood, Chaplain and international student contact at the University of Leicester.

• University fires up UK higher education with 'ignite'

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/ignite-launch

  The university that embraced distance learning in the UK more than 25 years ago has become one of the nation’s first to launch a fully flexible, dual learning approach to its courses from September, which will see students take more control over their approach to learning...

• 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.

• The Irchester Field School

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/outreach/the-irchester-field-school

  The Irchester Field School Leicestershire

• Obesity ‘accelerates’ COVID-19 mortality risk amongst ethnic minorities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/covid-19-obesity

  A stronger association exists between deaths from COVID-19 and obesity in people of Black, South Asian and other ethnic minority groups than in White people, latest research published in the journal Nature Communications demonstrates.

• Jude

  https://le.ac.uk/study/citizens/jude

  Learn more about Jude, one of our 'Citizens in the making' at Leicester.