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Professor Heiko Balzter shares hopes for COP29 and the path toward global climate action
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/cop29-heiko
Professor Heiko Balzter, Director of the Institute for Environmental Futures, speaks as he attends COP29 on behalf of the University of Leicester
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Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-cathedral-ulas
Preliminary investigations took place in late 2021, with the ULAS team carefully uncovering more than 120 burials in the top-most layers on the site. The area was once used as the churchyard for burials of people from all walks of life living in the surrounding parish.
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COP26: Funding boost for new space mission to monitor carbon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/microcarb
The new funding is to complete the build and testing of the satellite, led by Thales Alenia Space at the RAL Space assembly and test facilities on the Harwell Space Cluster, in Oxfordshire, and for NCEO experts at the universities of Leicester and Edinburgh to translate...
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Advanced Digital, AI and Manufacturing Technologies for Space: The second phase of Space Park Leicester is completed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/spl-phase-2
Professor Richard Ambrosi, Professor of Space Instrumentation and Space Nuclear Power Systems at the University of Leicester, said: “We are extremely proud of completing phase two of this project.
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Chief Scientific Adviser pays tribute to University of Leicester’s world-leading research, impact, and COVID-19 response during visit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/sir-patrick-vallance
Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, recently visited the University of Leicester to find out more about its research expertise and to deliver a lecture on the importance of scientific advice in national policymaking.
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Diabetes professor from Leicester presented with CBE
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/kamlesh-obe
A GP from Leicester who is recognised as the world’s leading diabetes researcher has been presented with the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
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University of Leicester staff blogs School of English Planning a Museum of the Bible
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/10/21/planning-a-museum-of-the-bible/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on October 21, 2014 Professor Gordon Campbell [posted on behalf of Professor Gordon Campbell] As a profession, we are uneasy about sacred texts.
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Student placement in Special Collections, Week 1-2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/07/31/student-placement-in-special-collections-week-1-2/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on July 31, 2025 Guest post written by Yi-Chen Su and Yongqin Huang, who are completing an eight week placement in Archives & Special Collections as part of their MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies .
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gboland
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/author/gab27/
Writer as Intellectual and Physical Drifter: Dr Rob M Francis reflects on his role as David Bradshaw Creative Writer in Residence and two of his favourite Oxford sites Posted by gboland in Waugh and Words on July 3, 2019 It’s been an absolute pleasure to be the...
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Ripple: Publication of the Students’ Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/01/29/ripple/
Posted by Ceri Ashwell in Library Special Collections on January 29, 2014 Front cover 1952 Welcome to our first blog post! The aim of the blog is to expand awareness of the items within our collection and of the resources we have available.