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• Psychology students complete placement in Sri Lanka

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-students-complete-mental-health-placement-in-sri-lanka

  Over the summer, two Leicester students travelled to Sri Lanka to undertake a voluntary Mental Health Placement with SLV, a graduate-led volunteering organisation, which runs psychology-focused placements in Sri Lanka and also in Bali, Indonesia.

• Leicester Medical School

  https://le.ac.uk/medicine

  For over 40 years Leicester Medical School has produced skilled, professional and caring doctors equipped for the modern health service, with patient care their first priority. Our aim is to prepare new doctors to meet the challenges of health care in the 21st century.

• Trees in tropical logged forests release carbon at greater rate despite faster growth, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/carbon-trees

  University of Leicester-led research focusing on the carbon dioxide produced by tree stems shows that individual trees in tropical forests impacted by logging produce more carbon dioxide per m2 of woody stem area than those in unaffected forests

• Students awaken the science of Star Wars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/students-awaken-the-science-of-star-wars

  Could a lightsaber really work? What would hyperspace travel look like? And how strong would a deflector shield need to be to fend off interstellar attacks? These are all questions that Star Wars fans have been asking for decades, and now that The Force Awakens has been...

• Research shows centuryold culture of blame still prominent today

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/research-shows-a-century-old-2018culture-of-blame2019-is-still-prominent-today

  Representatives from over 20 different healthcare organisations will be convening at the University on 11 June to discuss how old patterns of patient safety and historical complaints against doctors are still being replicated in the modern welfare system – and what lessons...

• 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.

• Culture on the Fringe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/culture-on-the-fringe

  An upcoming event organised and hosted by Leicester’s CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies will be exploring the concept of ‘fringe’ culture- how it might be defined, what separates it from the ‘mainstream’, and the opportunities that fringe festivals can...

• Lady in Lead Coffin revealed

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/lady-in-lead-coffin-revealed

  A mysterious lead coffin found close to the site of Richard III's hastily dug grave at the Grey Friars friary has been opened and studied by experts from the University of Leicester’s Archaeological Services (ULAS).

• Andrew Dunn: Page 182

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/182/

  Academic Librarian.