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Forests recovering from logging act as a source of carbon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/forests-logging-carbon
New study led by University of Leicester PhD student and Imperial College London researchers contradicts previous assumptions.
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Campaign raises awareness of cancer symptoms women should look out for
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/uterine-cancer-womb-campaign-leicester
A campaign to raise awareness of the symptoms of womb cancer and increase earlier diagnosis among Black and ethnic minority women is showing signs of success
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Major investment planned for Students’ Union as O2 Academy era comes to an end
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/major-investment-students-union-o2-ends
The University of Leicester outlines plans to invest in the future of student spaces across the Percy Gee Building.
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Major heart attack study reveals ‘survival paradox’: Frail men at higher risk of death than women despite better treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/heart-attack-frailty-sex-leicester
Pioneering research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to heart attack care, adding critical nuance to the debate on sex disparities
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The University as a military hospital during the Great War
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/military-hospital
The University’s building now known as the Fielding Johnson Building was used as a military hospital during the First World War. Find out more about its wartime history.
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National Civil War Centre
https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/national-civil-war-centre
The Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester and the National Civil War Centre (NCWC) have been working together to transform the public history of the British and Irish Civil Wars since 2012, when Newark Museum began its transformation, with the help...
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Scientists deliver world-first lobster X-ray telescope mirror
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/svom-satellite-lobster-mirror
Space scientists at the University of Leicester have delivered a completely new type of super-lightweight X-ray telescope mirror to study the greatest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang.
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National Space Centre celebrates 20 years in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/space-centre-20
The concept of the National Space Centre was first drawn up in 1994, and soon grew into a joint bid by the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council to the Millennium Commission as a Landmark Millennium Project for the East Midlands.
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abarker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/ajb154/
Adam Barker is a Research Associate with the Carceral Archipelago Project, University of Leicester.
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Reflections from our project intern
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/05/19/reflections-from-our-project-intern/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on May 19, 2014 By Jamie Harris, Carceral Archipelago undergraduate intern, 2013-14 I was an intern for the Carceral Archipelago project for 10 weeks. During this time I had two specific tasks to complete.