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• West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss over the last 11000 years shown in new study

  Date: 5 Jul 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-loss-over-the-last-11-000-years-shown-in-new-study

  An international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and involving our University has shown that wind-driven incursions of...

• International project to tackle risk crisis disaster and development management

  Date: 3 Jul 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/international-project-to-tackle-risk-crisis-disaster-and-development-management

  Researchers from the Universities of Leicester and Sheffield, in collaboration with Kansai University in Japan, have received a prestigious...

• Expert opinions cover South Africa Theresa May Richard III public health workplace learning and Italys banks

  Date: 28 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/expert-opinions-cover-south-africa-theresa-may-richard-iii-public-health-workplace-learning-and-italys-banks

  PhD student Tracey Logan from the School of History, Politics and International Relations has a reviewed a BBC Radio 4 programme.

• British developments in mining to be discussed at international conference

  Date: 8 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/british-developments-in-mining-to-be-discussed-at-international-conference

  Professor Gawen Jenkin from the Department of Geology has been invited to Peru in September in order to discuss major British developments in...

• Geology student presents on inspiring outreach work at international geological conference in Israel

  Date: 8 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/geology-student-presents-on-inspiring-outreach-work-at-international-geological-conference-in-israel

  Third year Geology Undergraduate Bea Baharier recently talked about her Holloway Trust funded outreach work and broader outreach in the Department...

• The solvents solving our gold challenges

  Date: 7 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/the-solvents-solving-our-gold-challenges

  Work in our Departments of Geology and Chemistry to develop safer and greener ways to process gold has been featured on the BBC World Service’s...

• Expert opinions cover the Anthropocene Leo Varadkar trauma after terror attacks and protest camps

  Date: 7 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/expert-opinions-cover-the-anthropocene-leo-varadkar-and-trauma-after-terror-attacks

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz from the Department of Geology has discussed the origin and implications of the term 'Anthropocene' in Science, People...

• New Leicester research demonstrates the migrant work ethic exists in the short term

  Date: 24 May 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/new-leicester-research-demonstrates-the-2018migrant-work-ethic2019-exists-in-the-short-term

  The received wisdom that migrant workers have a stronger ‘work ethic’ than UK-born workers is proven for the first time, in a new study of Central...

• The Anthropocene as Rupture

  Date: 22 May 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/the-anthropocene-as-rupture

  Australian academic Professor Clive Hamilton will be discussing how over the last two decades the new discipline of Earth System science has...

• Stirring things up in the Earths mantle

  Date: 12 May 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/stirring-things-up-in-the-earths-mantle

  New insights into the convection patterns of the Earth’s mantle and its chemical makeup have been revealed by a researcher from our Department of...