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• Carbon monitoring mission using Leicester expertise ready for launch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/microcarb

  National Centre for Earth Observation scientists based at University of Leicester and University of Edinburgh are leading the UK science for European mission MicroCarb, which has completed assembly and qualification in the UK.

• How to think about Social Distancing and Containment using Network Formation Games

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/05/28/how-to-think-about-social-distancing-and-containment-using-network-formation-games/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on May 28, 2020   An unreliable test and tracing system risks becoming counter-productive once we consider how it may affect people’s behaviour, writes Dr.

• Emma makes history as Leicester Medical School marks 50-year anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/emma-makes-history-leicester-medical-school-50-year-anniversary

  Emma Zugic made University of Leicester history this week as she became the final student to graduate from the Medical School in its 50th year.

• Congrats to Martin Halliwell on his John Maynard Keynes Fellowship in US Studies University of Leice

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/10/04/john-maynard-keynes-fellowship-in-us-studies/

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• Academics highlight how University research is helping to shape policing practice in the UK and beyond

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/academics-highlight-how-university-research-is-helping-to-shape-policing-practice-in-the-uk-and-beyond

  Recently Dr Matt Tonkin and Richard Ilett from our Department of Criminology were invited to visit the Zhejiang Police College in Hangzhou China.

• Modern-day insights from how segregationists sold their message on US television

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/how-segregationists-sold-their-message-on-us-television

  The effective use of national television broadcasts by white segregationists during the civil rights movement could provide valuable insights into the persistence of white nationalism in the United States today in a project by a PhD student from the Universities of Leicester...

• University Head of School selected as member of Blue Plaques Panel

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/tilly-blyth-blue-plaque-panel

  University of Leicester’s Head of Museum Studies has been announced as one of the newest members of English Heritage’s Blue Plaques Panel. Professor Tilly Blyth is one of four industry experts selected to help decide the newest additions to London’s blue plaque scheme.

• Is a product really worth what someone will pay for it?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2017/08/23/is-a-product-really-worth-what-someone-will-pay-for-it/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 23, 2017 I recently had reason to compare the work of people at opposite ends of the work-related pay scales that our society has developed.

• Leicester ramps up its wellbeing support for Gen Z students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/leicester-wellbeing-support-gen-z-students

  With almost a quarter of those in the Generation Z age group affected by mental health issues, The University of Leicester has ramped up the wellbeing support it offers its students.

• Project to explore how survival of British hedgehogs is affected by changing climate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/project-to-explore-how-survival-of-british-hedgehogs-is-affected-by-changing-climate

  Researchers from our University will be exploring how the UK’s changing climate could be affecting the survival of British hedgehogs as part of a new project to protect endangered animal species.