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• International Honour for Outstanding Scholarship

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/international-honour-for-outstanding-scholarship

  A Visiting Professor at our University's School of Archaeology and Ancient History is being honoured for his outstanding work. The American Numismatic Society (ANS) awards its 2017 Archer M.

• Space training programme for Chinese students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/space-training-programme-for-chinese-students

  This month, the University is welcoming a large delegation of engineering undergraduates from Beihang University in Beijing who will undertake a bespoke space training programme.

• Combating loneliness and isolation

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/humankind

  Professor Suzanne MacLeod led researchers from the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries and the National Trust and volunteers on the HumanKind project.

• Study shows large gender imbalance in funding given for cancer research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/study-shows-large-gender-imbalance-in-funding-given-for-cancer-research

  Male researchers receive far greater funding for cancer research than their female equivalents, suggests a study involving University of Leicester research and published in the journal BMJ Open.

• Student societies

  https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/undergraduate/societies

  Find out about the University of Leicester's student geological societies, including the Peter Colley Sylvester Bradley (PCSB) student society, Society of Economic Geologists, Palaeobiology Society and Geophysical Student Society.

• Rage and Revolution Revisited as a Major Punk Exhibition Hits Leicester This Summer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/punk-rage-revolution

  The team behind the successful 2019 Mods: Shaping a Generation exhibition, Soft Touch Arts, Arch Creative and Shaun Knapp, are proud to present Punk: Rage & Revolution. This showcase will begin in Leicester on 27th May ‘23 and run through to 3rd September ‘23.

• €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).

• girl.boy.child

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/girl-boy-child

  The performances will shine a light on many National Trust properties’ lesser known LGBTQ histories.

• Dickens shorthand sleuths offer hope for 1861 Canadian murder

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/dickens-shorthand-sleuths-canada-murder

  A team of decoders are hoping to crack the case of a murder in 19th century British Columbia

• The photograph

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

  Read the article "The photograph" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.