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Hundreds could be eligible for Windrush Compensation Scheme and not know, says University legal service
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/windrush
Read more about whether you could be eligible for the Windrush Compensation Scheme
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University of Leicester historian celebrates double book prize win
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/anderson
Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical Association’s biennial Kay Daniels Award 2024, for her book Convicts: A Global History.
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Science storyteller is honoured by the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/grads-fox
An expert who helps journalists navigate complex science stories has been honoured by the University of Leicester.
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Research identifies impact of teenage screen use
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/screen-use
Two thirds of children use more than one screen at the same time after school, in the evenings and at weekends as part of increasingly sedentary lifestyles, according to new research at the University of Leicester.
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Leicester engineers work on power systems for lunar rovers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/power-lunar-rovers
Researchers at University of Leicester and Space Park Leicester are part of a consortium developing power systems for lunar rovers that combine solar panels, batteries and radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
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Gardeners’ World presenter puts his roots down at University of Leicester’s city oasis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/nick-bailey
A face familiar to millions of BBC Gardeners’ World viewers will be bringing his expertise to the University of Leicester after being appointed director of its Botanic Garden.
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Mission Bake at National Space Centre launches with University Bake Off star
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/mission-bake
Dr Josh Smalley will be taking part in a new series of Instagram videos with the National Space Centre from 10 May
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WorkSmart, the future of working life at Leicester, launches next month
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/worksmart
The University of Leicester will officially open the doors, on the 2 August, to a new work space for staff in its central Professional Services - a move that signals the start of a new way of working at Leicester.
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University developments shortlisted among region’s best new buildings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/procon-finalists
The Percy Gee Building – first opened by Her Majesty the Queen in 1958, shortly after the University was granted its Royal Charter – has been extended with a new four-storey, 3,000 square metre East Wing.
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University of Leicester cements support of Ukraine through twinning agreement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/university-twin-ukraine
The University of Leicester has signed a Memorandum of Understanding twinning it with Kremenchuk Mykhailo Otrohradskyi National University in Ukraine, in a demonstration of solidarity with institutions affected by conflict in the country.