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• Sensational discovery of previously unseen Adrian Mole diary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/sensational-discovery-of-previously-unseen-adrian-mole-diary

  Teenage intellectual Mole achieved fame in the 1980s for his astute, observational journal cataloguing middle class domestic life in a Leicester household. He has been cited by some critics as “a modern day Pepys.

• Archive Fever at the Harry Ransom Center (HRC)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2018/06/13/archive-fever-at-the-harry-ransom-center-hrc/

  Posted by gboland in Waugh and Words on June 13, 2018 Following a research visit to the Harry Ransom Center, CWEW editor of Waugh’s Helena, Sara Haslam, reflects on her illuminating experience.

• cl13

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/corinne_lambert/

  The Dryad Collection – basket weaving Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on August 30, 2022 As I catalogue the Dryad Collection, I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the...

• Event aims to inspire academic achievement in local Bangladeshi community

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/event-aims-to-inspire-academic-achievement-in-local-bangladeshi-community-1

  The University's Department of Chemistry will be hosting an outreach event on Thursday 1 June, designed to encourage academic achievement in children of Bangladeshi heritage.

• Leicester historian takes Hairy Bikers through Yorkshires past pubs

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/leicester-historian-takes-hairy-bikers-through-yorkshire2019s-past-pubs

  A new BBC series following the popular Hairy Bikers on a tour of historic British pubs features a historian from our University in its opening episode, discussing the pubs of Yorkshire’s past.

• Artificial Intelligence tool successfully predicts fatal heart rhythm

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/ai-heart-rhythm

  In a Leicester study that looked at whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to predict whether a person was at risk of a lethal heart rhythm, an AI tool correctly identified the condition 80 per cent of the time.

• Leicester Law School hosts the Festival of Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange for Research at the University of Leicester 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/knowledge-exchange-public-festival-law-school

  Leicester Law School is delighted to host the Festival of Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange for Research offering a public platform for academics, students, community organisations, industry leaders, policy makers and civic partners to connect, share and discover the...

• University investment in research talent at the cutting edge of science

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/university-investment-in-research-talent-at-the-cutting-edge-of-science

  Fresh investment into postgraduate research at the University of Leicester will nurture a cohort of scientists with expert knowledge and advanced skills, developed through investigating current problems and new developments in science and technology.

• Student profile: Ellen

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/student-profiles/ellen-esrc-midlands-grad

  Ellen is studying on the Human Geography Pathway with the ESRC Midlands Graduate School. Read more about her experiences of studying a PhD at Leicester.

• Char Leung

  https://le.ac.uk/people/char-leung

  The academic profile of Dr Char Leung, Lecturer of Medical Statistics / Epidemiology at University of Leicester