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• Midlands conference to focus on NQT support and retention

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/midlands-conference-to-focus-on-nqt-support-and-retention

  Education experts are supporting NQTs through high quality training at an upcoming regional conference. The aim is to enable them to continue their professional development, remain in post and make progress in their careers, thereby helping to tackle issues of teacher retention.

• Steve Pinsent

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/steve-pinsent

  We have learned, with regret, of the death of Steve Pinsent, who was the University's Fire Safety Officer from 2008 to 2017.

• Peptide from fish could help in battle against cardiovascular disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/peptide-from-fish-could-help-in-battle-against-cardiovascular-disease

  A major international review of a peptide originally found in fish that could be used in the battle against cardiovascular disease has been published.

• Heart professor stars in BBC documentary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/heart-professor-stars-in-bbc-documentary

  A leading Leicester professor is to appear in a BBC documentary after finding a link between red meat and heart disease. Professor Toru Suzuki (pictured) from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences was asked to conduct an experiment looking at how steak affects the body.

• Levels of financial inequality leave vast majority in poverty

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/levels-of-financial-inequality-leave-vast-majority-in-poverty

  The significant and ‘unfair’ level of financial inequality in countries around the world will be discussed at a free public event organised by the Leicester Actuarial Science Society (LASS) at 2:00pm on Wednesday 10 February in the Rattray Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre.

• Leicester academic heads judging panel to land robot on the moon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-academic-heads-judging-panel-to-land-robot-on-the-moon

  An academic from our University has been elected to Chair a judging panel in a global $30 million prize competition to land a robot on the moon.

• British developments in mining to be discussed at international conference

  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 mining and processing.

• Professor features on Songs of Praise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/professor-features-on-songs-of-praise

  Professor Martin Barstow (pictured), Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Strategic Science Projects and Director, Leicester Institute of Space & Earth Observation features in this weekend’s Songs of Praise.

• Research into completers and non-completers of offending behaviour programmes could have implications for practice

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/research-into-completers-and-non-completers-of-offending-behaviour-programmes-could-have-implications-for-practice

  A study by Dr Emma Palmer (pictured) in the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour has highlighted the importance of ensuring high-risk and impulsive offenders complete rehabilitation programmes and that some offenders require extra support to engage...

• Professional services

  https://le.ac.uk/arts/people/professional-services

  Browse our management team and professional services staff in the School of Arts and see their contact details.