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• Integrated Histories of the Andaman Islands

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/integrated-histories-of-the-andaman-islands

  ESRC Research Grant (£110,934) October 2009 - March 2013 Professor Clare Anderson This 3-year ESRC funded research project was a UK-India collaboration with the anthropologist Prof. Vishvajit Pandya and the historian of science, Dr Madhumita Mazumdar.

• Efforts to establish laws for space boosted by Ukraine partnerships

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/space-law-conference

  Conference tackling law and international co-operation in space hosted at University of Leicester, organised by expert in space law who fled Ukraine for Leicester.

• New Institute to bolster research among Leicester’s Health and Care professionals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/institute-for-health

  A new institute has been launched to radically boost the number of research opportunities available to Leicester’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health scientists and pharmacists

• ispace and University of Leicester collaborate on lunar night survival technology

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/ispace

  The University of Leicester and ispace have entered into an agreement to explore lunar night survivability utilizing Radioisotope Heater Units developed at Space Park Leicester

• University lights up medical building in support of Baby Loss Awareness Week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/baby-loss-awareness

  As part of the national campaign to highlight the importance of Baby Loss Awareness Week, the University of Leicester’s George Davies Centre, home to many of Leicester’s world-changing health researchers and teaching spaces, will join other national UK landmarks in being lit...

• AI-powered research tackles healthcare inequality for people with learning disabilities  

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/midland-report-ai-health-outcomes

  A new report by the Academy of Social Sciences has showcased research by the University of Leicester and led by Loughborough University on using artificial intelligence to tackle healthcare inequality.

• Obesity ‘accelerates’ COVID-19 mortality risk amongst ethnic minorities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/covid-19-obesity

  A stronger association exists between deaths from COVID-19 and obesity in people of Black, South Asian and other ethnic minority groups than in White people, latest research published in the journal Nature Communications demonstrates.

• Dennis Smith

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/dennis-smith

  We have learned with sadness of the recent death of Professor Dennis Smith, who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1970s. Professor Smith passed away in February 2024.

• Academic presents research on silence in Japans second language classrooms

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/academic-presents-research-on-silence-in-japan2019s-second-language-classrooms

  Dr Jim King from the School of Arts has recently presented research in London to an audience of Japan experts and educationalists into why Japanese students are often reluctant to speak in a second language in classes in Japan.

• Launch of telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/launch-of-telescope-for-detecting-optical-signals-from-gravitational-waves

  A state-of-the-art telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves - built and operated by an international research collaboration, led by the Universities of Warwick and Monash - has been officially launched.