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  • New training set to support more children born prematurely and their families

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/premature-birth-training-smallest-things

    A new online module created with the help of Leicester experts, ‘Supporting children and families in the pre-school’ years, has been released to increase awareness and understanding within early years staff of the impact of premature birth on children and their families.

  • NASA Mars Rover set for touchdown on Red Planet

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/mars-rover

    Space scientists around the world will hold their breath on Thursday as NASA’s latest mission to Mars attempts a daring landing on the Red Planet.

  • First glimpse of Mercury for BepiColombo

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/bepicolombo-mercury

    The mission comprises two science orbiters which will be delivered into complementary orbits around the planet by the Mercury Transfer Module in 2025.

  • All rise! Height-adjustable desks can reduce workplace sitting by over an hour a day

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/standing-desk-research

    Researchers have developed a programme that, when paired with a height-adjustable desk, can reduce the time people spend sitting by over an hour.

  • Urgent action required to protect world’s coral reefs from disappearing within three decades, warn experts

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/coral-reefs

    In 2018 the Vibrant Oceans group identified 50 reefs that are most likely to resist and survive climate change. The habitats are located largely in the Pacific and Indian oceans, with further reefs in the Caribbean and east of Africa.

  • Company’s mission to revolutionise agriculture and eliminate global waste takes off at Space Park Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/messium-space-park

    Agri-tech start-up Messium joins the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre for the United Kingdom (ESA-BIC UK) programme at Space Park Leicester.

  • Strawbs founder honoured by University of Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/david-cousins-honorary-degree

    The University of Leicester conferred an honorary Doctor of Music (DMus) degree on David Cousins, musician, songwriter and founder of UK rock group Strawbs, at its graduation ceremonies on Friday 20 January.

  • Brian Burch OBE

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2021/brian-burch

    We have learned, with regret, of the death of Brian Burch OBE, who served as University Librarian  from 1982 to 1995 and also wrote the definitive history of the University.

  • Protecting sex workers

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/sex-workers

    In considering sex work, police and health practitioners have focused on ‘the street’ as the main location for sex workers. However, in the 21st century the sex industry has changed enormously, and today most commercial sex work happens online.

  • Publications

    https://le.ac.uk/history/research/publications

    This list provides information about books published by historians at Leicester. More information about publications can be found within individual staff pages. 2024 The Routledge Companion to British Womens' Suffrage  By: Krista Cowman (ed.

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