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• Leicester to be part of regional hub for postgraduate training

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/leicester-to-be-part-of-regional-hub-for-postgraduate-training

  Our University is working with a consortium of Midlands universities to open up a range of new opportunities for postgraduate study in the region.

• Ancient chimpanzee Adam lived over one million years ago

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/ancient-chimpanzee-2018adam2019-lived-over-one-million-years-ago

  Chimpanzees have an ancient common ancestor – or genetic ‘Adam’ - that lived over one million years ago, according to a research team led by Professor Mark Jobling from the Department of Genetics.

• Coronavirus: Media coverage

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/coronavirus-media-coverage/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Media Cloud is monitoring global media  coverage of the pandemic and has some interesting facts and figures on its website.

• Chemistry BSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/chemistry-bsc/2027

  Discoveries in chemistry can lead to all kinds of breakthroughs in fields like health and medicine, energy and the environment, technology and materials – to name just a few.

• Adapted rooms policy

  https://le.ac.uk/study/accommodation/policies-and-procedures/adapted-rooms-policy

  Information on university of Leicester's adapted room policy for accommodation

• The “Pains of Imprisonment”: an historical sociology of penal transportation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/11/11/the-pains-of-imprisonment-an-historical-sociology-of-penal-transportation/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 11, 2016   A few years ago, the eminent scholar of the Russian Gulag , Professor Judith Pallot , challenged me to consider the relevance of the sociology of incarceration as a means of understanding convict...

• Citizen science project makes 20 new astronomical discoveries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/kilonova-seekers

  The public has played an instrumental role in identifying cosmic explosions for a citizen science project involving the University of Leicester.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/133/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Remote sensing of greenhouse gases in the air over Jinja, Uganda

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/01/22/remote-sensing-of-greenhouse-gases-in-the-air-over-jinja-uganda/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 22 January 2020 A new ground-based measurement site in Uganda, set up by the University of Leicester in partnership with NaFIRRI, will provide a unique dataset of remotely sensed greenhouse gas observations...

• Achieving a work-life balance in the scientific field

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/achieving-a-work-life-balance-in-the-scientific-field

  An upcoming debate at Leicester will see esteemed academics lead a discussion on the importance of a work-life balance, designed to illuminate the challenges faced by those who work in the scientific field, and explore how we can make it easier for everyone to improve this...