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The case for ‘remain’ in the EU referendum – my view as the director of a €1.5 million European fund
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/13/the-case-for-remain-in-the-eu-referendum-my-view-as-the-director-of-a-e1-5-million-european-funded-research-project-in-history/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 13, 2016 At the end of last week, thirteen Nobel prize-winning scientists wrote a letter to the right leaning newspaper The Daily Telegraph , urging Britain to vote ‘remain’ in the forthcoming European Union (EU)...
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University of Leicester academic takes leading role in major new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon England
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/anglo-saxon-exhibition
Anglo-Saxon exhibition King Edgar’s Charter for the New Minster, Winchester – British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII ff.
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Physics & Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/author/leigh_fletcher/
Juno Mission unveils the depth and structure of planet’s shrinking red spot and colourful bands Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on October 29, 2021 Dr.
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Exosens invests £1m to propel space research and innovation for the METEOR programme in partnership with Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/exosens
Exosens has worked with University of Leicester academics for more than 25 years, on projects such as the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) instrument the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission
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Leicester scientist working with NASA discovers a long-sought global electric field on Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/global-electric-field
A rocket team including a University of Leicester space scientist reports the first successful detection of Earth’s ambipolar electric field: a weak, planet-wide electric field as fundamental as Earth’s gravity and magnetic fields
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Leicester contribution to major Parliamentary report
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/space-defence
A leading expert in space warfare based at the University of Leicester has contributed to a new Parliamentary report on defence of the UK’s assets in space.
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First glimpse of Mercury for BepiColombo
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/bepicolombo-mercury
The mission comprises two science orbiters which will be delivered into complementary orbits around the planet by the Mercury Transfer Module in 2025.
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Earth-based observations prepare Juno for the Great Red Spot Encounter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2017/06/30/earth-based-observations-prepare-juno-for-the-great-red-spot-encounter/
University of Leicester staff blogs
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Leicester scientists look to Venus for close-range BepiColombo flyby
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/bepicolombo-venus
Planetary scientists at the University of Leicester are braced for a flood of new data from one of the closest-ever flybys of Venus.
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Tiangong1 and Chinas space politics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/tiangong-1-and-china2019s-space-politics
Dr Bleddyn Bowen, a Lecturer at the School of History, Politics and International Relations, and expert in astropolitics and space security, has recently discussed the significance of China’s space station Tiangong-1 in the wider context of international relations in outer space.