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• Entomology fieldtrip turns into a once in a lifetime opportunity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/cicadas

  A University of Leicester researcher has witnessed a once in a lifetime experience on a trip to the United States.

• World Digital Preservation Day 2023: making digital preservation greener

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/11/02/world-digital-preservation-day-2023-making-digital-preservation-greener/

  Posted by vholmes in Library and Learning Services on November 2, 2023 Logo for World Digital Preservation Day, 2 November 2023 The theme for WPDP2023 (2 November) is Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort . This post is a write-up of an online talk to celebrate the day.

• University fires up UK higher education with 'ignite'

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/ignite-launch

  The university that embraced distance learning in the UK more than 25 years ago has become one of the nation’s first to launch a fully flexible, dual learning approach to its courses from September, which will see students take more control over their approach to learning...

• 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...

• 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.

• The house (‘pansi ghor’): a classic object of human resilience to environmental disasters?

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

  Read the article "The house (‘pansi ghor’): a classic object of human resilience to environmental disasters?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• 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.

• 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