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University figures feature in Most Influential People in Leicestershire list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/university-figures-feature-in-most-influential-people-in-leicestershire-list
The Leicester Mercury has recently published its Most Influential People in Leicestershire 2016 brochure, which features staff, alumni, honorary graduates and others associated with the University of Leicester.
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Winners of the 12th Festival of Postgraduate Research announced
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/winners-of-the-12th-festival-of-postgraduate-research-announced
The winners of the Festival of Postgraduate Research 2016 have been announced. During the Festival our University gets to showcase the best of its research student talent and this year the standard of entries was very high.
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Universitys Attenborough Arts Centre to host plant and pollination themed art exhibitions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/university2019s-attenborough-arts-centre-to-host-plant-and-pollination-themed-art-exhibitions
Our Attenborough Arts Centre will host two new contemporary art exhibitions in its brand new gallery spaces this summer, from 23 July – Sunday 25 September. ‘Plant Culture, selected from the Arts Council Collection’ and ‘Every Last Mouthful’ by artists Chatwin: Martin.
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Childrens purchasing behaviour significantly impacted by social media and mobile apps research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/children2019s-purchasing-behaviour-2018significantly-impacted2019-by-social-media-and-mobile-apps-research-shows
Exposure to prompts to make in-app purchases in mobile games has a significant impact on children’s purchasing behaviour, according to a recent study funded by the European Commission involving Dr Giuseppe Veltri, who now works at the Department of Media Communication.
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Ancient chimpanzee Adam lived over one million years ago
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/ancient-chimpanzee-2018adam2019-lived-over-one-million-years-ago
Chimpanzees have an ancient common ancestor – or genetic ‘Adam’ - that lived over one million years ago, according to a research team led by Professor Mark Jobling from the Department of Genetics.
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Lessons to learn from Leicester success in urban policy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/lessons-to-learn-from-leicester-success-in-urban-policy
With a Premier League winning football team and World Snooker Champion to its name, eyes have turned to Leicester as a force to be reckoned with in the sporting world.
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What is the Anthropocene and why is it relevant for international law
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/what-is-the-anthropocene-and-why-is-it-relevant-for-international-law
An article written by Professors Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams from the Department of Geology with Professor Davor Vidas of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway is for the third month in a row ranked in the top 50 of the most-read articles in the Oxford University...
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Dr Benjamin Fenech
https://le.ac.uk/cehs/hpru/people/benjamin-fenech
Acoustics Specialist I am an acoustics specialist with a special interest in the non-auditory health effects of sound and noise.
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Parent and Public Advisory Group
https://le.ac.uk/timms/research/lcfc/ppag
Are you interested in the health and wellbeing of babies and young children in Leicester and Leicestershire? Can you help us improve our work into the health of babies and young children? Our team is trying to find out how different factors in the early life of babies...
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Leicester StreetDoctors team give emergency first aid training
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/leicesters-streetdoctors-team-give-life-saving-first-aid-training-to-hitz-rugby-group
A team of volunteer medical students from our University working as members of national volunteering organisation StreetDoctors visited Leicester Tigers last week to deliver a day of emergency first-aid training to members of the HITZ Rugby group.