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• Aims and Methods in Archaeology

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/ar1061

  Module code: AR1061 How do archaeologists find sites? How do they excavate them? How do they take the fragments of things they find and use them to tell stories about the past? This module gives you an introduction to the things archaeologists do, the materials they study and...

• Obituary: Vikki Orvice

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/07-vikki-orvice-obituary

  Vikki Orvice| The University is saddened to hear that alumna Vikki Orvice has passed away at the age of 56. Vikki studied a BA English and graduated in 1984.

• Leicester’s Jupiter research cited on new Royal Mail set

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/05-jupiter-stamp

  The latest commemorative stamps from Royal Mail celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Astronomical Society.  And the work of space scientists in our School of Physics and Astronomy gets a mention. Jupiter’s auroras feature on one of the £1.55 stamps.

• Subject Discovery Sessions

  https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/pre-16/subject-discovery-sessions

  Find out about University of Leicester's subject discovery sessions with focused workshops for pre-16 years.

• The television: an electronic babysitter for the incarcerated?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/television

  Read the article "The television: an electronic babysitter for the incarcerated?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• The video game: a legitimate art form?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/video-game

  Read the article "The video game: a legitimate art form?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• 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.

• 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.

• Solid Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/solid-earth

  Solid Earth research at Leicester concerns all aspects of the structure, composition and dynamics of the solid earth, including volcanoes, tectonics, geophysics, igneous and metamorphic geochemistry and mineral resources (which includes the Centre for Sustainable Resource...

• Leicester professor receives King’s honour for services to healthcare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/liz-draper

  A University of Leicester professor who has devoted her life to research into the health and wellbeing of babies and children has been honoured by the King