Are you a Minoritised Ethnic student who is interested in doing a fully-funded PhD in Geography, Environmental or Earth Science? Check out the CENTA Science Opportunity Scholarship Scheme 🚨Deadline 10th January 2024🚨: centa.ac.uk/apply/how-to-a… #PhDOpportunities #PhDScholarships

Apply now to a fully funded CENTA PhD project British Geological Survey and Geology at Leicester University of Leicester on deep-sea minerals, climate reconstruction, and metal enrichment processes centa.ac.uk/studentship/20…. Apply via CENTA by 10-Jan-24. Message me or Pierre Josso for more info

Breaking news: University of Leicester and The Apollo University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore how they can build the healthcare of the future with the potential to transform lives in India, the UK and around the globe. Full story: le.ac.uk/news/2023/octo…

Join Dr Margaret Byron and Maxine Chapman this Thursday 26 Oct at 5PM, as they explore the lives of Caribbean nurses who settled in Leicester and worked in the health care services in the city. 🔗forms.office.com/Pages/Response… #BlackHistoryMonth #SalutingOurSisters #WEMATTER

It all starts with an Open Day 😍 Book your place today to find out more about what life is like studying at a Top 30 UK University* 📅 Sat 11 November 👉 le.ac.uk/open-days #CitizensOfChange #ChangeIsHere *Times Higher Education World Rankings 2024

🗣️New paper! Dr Tom Harvey University of Leicester reports the discovery of Cambrian colonial phytoplankton with defence mechanisms against predators entering the planktic realm. The fossils help solve the longstanding mystery of Cambrian 'acritarch' ecology. Leicester Geography

News | Two University of Leicester scientists are part of a team that’s observed an exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst, using telescopes including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). 🛰 👉 le.ac.uk/news/2023/octo… #CitizensOfChange @NASAWEBB Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester

University of Leicester Technicians have you seen the fantastic online workshops available to you? From CV writing to mentoring to project management! Take a look and sign up. All are funded by Research England #development #technicians #CareerGrowth

Great to be at the #LeicsLiveBusinessAwards as headline sponsors, celebrating the region’s best businesses, and the amazing people behind them. Good luck to all! University of Leicester

We are proud sponsors of #DiwaliLeicester 2023. 🪔 Join celebrations across the city with the 40th anniversary of the #Diwali Lights Switch On taking place on Sunday 29 October from 3pm – 9pm along Belgrave Road. le.ac.uk/diwali #Diwali2023 Leicester Festivals

Congratulations to Dr Katherine Critchley who is the new WES President elected at the AGM on the 27 October. Dr Critchley is the 55th President of WES taking over the role from Dame Dawn Childs. #WESAGM wes.org.uk/news/dr-kathy-…

Wonderful to see our Chancellor, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, nominated by Guardian readers as a face they would like to see on a British postage stamp to mark Black History Month. ➡️ theguardian.com/world/2023/oct… We wholeheartedly agree! 📸: John Gaffen/Alamy

🗣️Job Alert! We invite applications for research fellowships (by 30 Nov 23). The projects aim to develop self-learning technology to aid decision-making for reducing greenhouse gas emissions e.g. from cows, sheep & agricultural peatlands. Details👉jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/9041…

Proud to be endorsed by Labour's Environment Campaign - SERA - Labour’s official Environment Campaign 💪🏾💚🌹 In my professional, political & personal life I have campaigned on and sought solutions to tackle the Climate & Biodiversity crises we face 💪🏾 We need more climate experience in parliament now 🙌🏾

Fantastic Diwali celebrations!

Fantastic news and huge congratulations to James Pickering for leading this amazing project! We are so grateful for the support from Royal Society of Chemistry and can't wait to get our students involved! #chemtwitter

Haha, yep progressing through to Quarter Finals. Still can’t believe it. In the words of Dame Prue “If Wimbledon did Strawberries and Cream like this, it would be terrific.” I couldn’t ask for better praise than that, a comment I won’t forget 😌🎾🍓 Wimbledon

Here we go!!! M-MATISSE continues its “painting” of Mars by passing to Phase-A! I’m over the moon! Many congratulations to the whole team, which includes people from mostly all Europe, Japan and US, and to European Space Agency and ESA Science as well for the amazing Phase-0!! 🥂cheers everyone!!

In this blog post for Wonkhe, our President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah shares how we are helping unlock and nurture diverse local talent and provide opportunities that speak to our founding mission and motto, ‘ut vitam habeant’ – 'so that they may have life'.

🛰️ Hear Prof Emma Bunce (Prof Emma Bunce) talking about a mission to Mercury on "In Our Time" tomorrow at 9am. 🛰️