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• The video game: a legitimate art form?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/video-game

  Read the article "The video game: a legitimate art form?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• Efforts to establish laws for space boosted by Ukraine partnerships

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/space-law-conference

  Conference tackling law and international co-operation in space hosted at University of Leicester, organised by expert in space law who fled Ukraine for Leicester.

• Leicester rehabilitation programmes highlighted by national charity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-leicester-rehabilitation-programmes-highlighted-national-charity

  Two initiatives developed at Leicester’s Hospitals have been cited in the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) new five-point plan to achieve the biggest impact for people with, or at risk of, heart and circulatory diseases.

• AI-powered research tackles healthcare inequality for people with learning disabilities  

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/midland-report-ai-health-outcomes

  A new report by the Academy of Social Sciences has showcased research by the University of Leicester and led by Loughborough University on using artificial intelligence to tackle healthcare inequality.

• Leicester professor receives King’s honour for services to healthcare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/liz-draper

  A University of Leicester professor who has devoted her life to research into the health and wellbeing of babies and children has been honoured by the King

• ispace and University of Leicester collaborate on lunar night survival technology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/ispace

  The University of Leicester and ispace have entered into an agreement to explore lunar night survivability utilizing Radioisotope Heater Units developed at Space Park Leicester

• The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.

• Dennis Smith

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/dennis-smith

  We have learned with sadness of the recent death of Professor Dennis Smith, who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1970s. Professor Smith passed away in February 2024.

• Academic presents research on silence in Japans second language classrooms

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/academic-presents-research-on-silence-in-japan2019s-second-language-classrooms

  Dr Jim King from the School of Arts has recently presented research in London to an audience of Japan experts and educationalists into why Japanese students are often reluctant to speak in a second language in classes in Japan.

• Launch of telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/launch-of-telescope-for-detecting-optical-signals-from-gravitational-waves

  A state-of-the-art telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves - built and operated by an international research collaboration, led by the Universities of Warwick and Monash - has been officially launched.