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• The sky’s the limit for students thanks to University partnership with Leicestershire Aero Club

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/sky-limit-students-partnership-leicestershire-aero-club

  First students have undergone flight training as part of a new Flight Test Course from School of Engineering , who have established a partnership with Leicestershire Aero Club to support training

• Book Trade Networks

  https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/research/book-trade-networks

  The University of Leicester's Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for the Book Trade Network project.

• University welcomes refugee and asylum seeker scholars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/sanctuary-welcome-event

  Leicester University welcomes refugee and asylum seeker scholars

• Major endorsement for new space mission to find ‘Earth 2.0’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/luvoir

  Initial designs show some similarities to JWST, with a segmented telescope assembly and large sunshade to be deployed in orbit. But LUVOIR would boast a segmented mirror up to 16m in diameter – compared to the current record 6m diameter array fitted to JWST.

• Charles Cockell on Astrobiology: National Space Centre Q&A

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/12/charles-cockell-on-astrobiology-national-space-centre-qa/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 12 November 2020 Join the National Space Centre on Friday 13 November at 19:00 for a special #SciFRI, as Charles Cockell, Professor of Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh takes part in a live Q&A...

• Building foundations for students

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/ult/2016/12/14/building-foundations-for-students/

  Menu Close University Leadership Team Home Building foundations for students Building foundations for students Posted by on December 14, 2016 It is a known fact that 80% of doctors come from 20% of schools, meaning there is a lot of untapped potential.

• £1.2 million funding to investigate mental health legacy of colonialism in Guyana’s jails

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-mental-health-legacy-of-colonialism-in-guyanas-jails

  Funding for University of Leicester project announced under the ESRC-AHRC GCRF Mental Health 2017 Call

• World leaders announced in support for HeForShe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/world-leaders-announced-in-support-for-heforshe

  World leaders and new universities and companies have now been announced – alongside the University of Leicester – for the UN’s HeForShe campaign.

• Sally Kyd

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/sally-kyd

  Sally joined the University of Leicester as an undergraduate, studied here for her PhD, joined the teaching staff, was appointed Professor – and eventually became the first female Head of Leicester Law School.

• Supporting student learning: the limits of genericism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/12/05/supporting-student-learning-the-limits-of-genericism/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on December 5, 2017 ‘Learning in higher education involves adapting to new ways of knowing: new ways of understanding, interpreting and organising knowledge.