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  • Leicester passes 5 million readers milestone on The Conversation

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester-passes-5-million-readers-milestone-on-the-conversation

    Academics from across our University have collectively captured the imagination of over 5 million readers through nearly 250 articles written...

  • Dawn of the Anthropocene concept

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/dawn-of-the-anthropocene-concept

    Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely...

  • The story of skeletons

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-story-of-skeletons

    What links the narwhal’s tusk, ancient trilobites, Richard III (and his drinking habits), tumbleweed, an argonaut, and the outstretched fourth...

  • Gentrification masks ugly truths

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/gentrification-masks-ugly-truths

    One of the country’s leading urban geographers, Professor Loretta Lees, has outlined some of her key findings on gentrification in London.

  • The curse of zombie fossils

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-curse-of-zombie-fossils

    New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose and lose body parts as they decay - and the ways...

  • Genetic properties help identify illegally traded tropical hardwood

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/genetic-properties-help-identify-illegally-traded-tropical-hardwood

    Around 30-90 percent of all tropical hardwood is logged illegally.

  • Eradicating famine in Africa gets boost through new research

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/researchers-resolve-to-eradicate-famine-and-food-insecurity-in-kenya

    Leicester researchers are part of an international team spearheading a Newton-Utafiti Fund project delivered by the British Council to restore...

  • Space Technologies to help protect communities and the environment

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/space-technologies-to-help-protect-communities-and-the-environment-1

    Multi-million pound funding for world-class research at our University, to use space technologies to help herders in Mongolia and monitor tropical...

  • Expert opinions cover trust within cultures colour the Anthropocene and more

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-zimbabwe-trust-within-cultures-and-more

    Professor Jo Brewis from our School of Business has explored the ways in which the gig economy is providing an insidious new means for women to be...

  • Geological Society of London honour for geology professor

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/geological-society-of-london-honour-for-geology-professor

    Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured), Professor of Palaeobiology at our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, has been awarded the Prestwich...
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