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• An Interview with DiscoverPhDs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/08/03/an-interview-with-discoverphds/

  Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 3 August 2020 Leicester physicist interviewed by DiscoverPhDs to help future PhD students, written by Harneet Sangha. One of our final year PhD students, Harneet Sangha, was recently interviewed by online platform DiscoverPhDs.

• University of Leicester to partner with two universities in Ukraine

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/uuki-ukraine-twinning

  University of Leicester is establishing a partnership with two universities in Ukraine, facilitating the sharing of resources and support to their staff and students.

• A giant black hole in the Milky Way

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2024/04/30/a-giant-black-hole-in-the-milky-way/

  Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 April 2024 A sleeping giant The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has discovered a black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun. It is in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth.

• Student profiles

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/student-profiles

  Read our student profiles to find out more about what it’s really like to be a PhD student at Leicester.

• €1.5 million award to study birth of planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/erc-starter-grant

  Leicester astrophysics research which seeks to answer fundamental questions about the formation of planets has been awarded a major funding boost by the European Research Council (ERC).

• Research aims to improve reading for older people

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/3-university-of-leicester-research-aims-to-improve-reading-for-older-people

  A University of Leicester project examining how the effects of ageing impact on our ability to read has received £200K funding

• THESEUS

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/space-projects-instrumentation/projects/theseus

  The “Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor” (THESEUS) mission concept is an European Space Agency candidate in Phase A study as part of the ESA Medium class call M7.

• Life on the home front

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/life-on-the-home-front

  Learn more about life on the home front during the First World War from interviews with residents of Leicestershire during the time.

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 5 11 November

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-5-11-november

  Dr Jon Moran from the Department of Politics and International Relations has written an article for The Conversation about issues facing the Iraqi Army.

• Streptococcus pneumoniae

  https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/meningitis/streptococcus-pneumoniae

  Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterial cause of meningitis, a community acquired infection.