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• New Year Honours for University of Leicester Chancellor and Professor both leading the way in space science

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/new-years-honours-emma-bunce-maggie-aderin-pocock

  A space scientist, whose influence has reached throughout the solar system, and the University’s Chancellor, who encourages students to ‘reach for the stars’, are among this year’s recipients of New Year’s Honours.

• Responsible International Business and Strategic Risk Management

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mk7056

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• How universities can support Higher Education in Palestine will come under the spotlight as part of University of Leicester Breaking Barriers Refugee Week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/refugee-week-2024

  Week of events from 1 to 8 March celebrates the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary, and four events at University of Leicester will outline how it is supporting students and higher education systems under threat

• Experts warn mothers and babies at growing risk without better care for type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/diabetes-pregnancy-health-risk-leicester

  Researchers from across the UK including Leicester are calling for urgent action to improve care for women with early-onset type 2 diabetes before, during and after pregnancy

• Difficult Conversations: Mayor of Leicester to join expert panel to discuss making cities greener

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/cities-future

  The Mayor of Leicester will join a public Q&A alongside University of Leicester experts to explore the relationship between cities and nature.

• Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/tracking-a-solar-eruption-through-the-solar-system

  Ten spacecraft, from ESA’s Venus Express to NASA’s Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather event.

• About the project

  https://le.ac.uk/country-house-technology/about

  Project background and methodology From the 18th century, many technological innovations (such as gas and electric light, bells and telephones, piped water supplies, heating systems and sanitation) became available but the isolated nature of many country estates meant that...

• Peatland protection

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/peatland-protection

  Peatlands around the world are being destroyed to make way for plantation development, logging and mining.

• Leicester mini workshop, July 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/miv/workshop-programme/july-2018-leicester-mini-workshop

  We held a mini-workshop for the minimal surfaces project at the University of Leicester in July 2018.

• Sensory Reading: New Approaches to Teaching and Learning GCSE English Literature

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/sensory-reading

  Led by Professor Phil Shaw and Dr Scott Freer in the Department of English, ‘Sensory Reading’ aims to develop outreach opportunities arising from Phil Shaw’s AHRC Leadership Fellow project, Wordsworth 2020.