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• Unemployment Heart Disease prevention fingerprints and babyfarming among research showcased at Festival of Postgraduate Research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/unemployment-heart-disease-prevention-fingerprints-and-2018baby-farming2019-among-research-showcased-at-university-of-leicester-festival

  Research into youth unemployment in the East Midlands and unemployment amongst the elderly and unskilled, how manipulations in genetic ‘switches’ can help prevent heart disease, creating new algorithms for fingerprint identification and a re-evaluation of ‘baby-farming’...

• Fire, flood, winds and earthquakes: satellite imagery reveals damage wrought by changing climate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/climate-satellite-imagery

  Earth observation scientists in Leicester release new series of images that paint a picture of our climate vulnerability, released to coincide with COP28

• Selected publications

  https://le.ac.uk/gem/research/publications

  Browse a selected list of publications attributed to Professor Simon Conroy and Dr Jay Banerjee.

• Conference World and the Avoidance of Thought

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/08/27/conference-world-and-the-avoidance-of-thought/

  Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on August 27, 2015 Having just returned from another major international conference, Professor Martin Parker is coming to suspect that they’re rarely worth the fuss At the beginning of August, what must surely be the largest...

• Calculations reveal Santa travels at 0.5% the speed of light

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/21-calculations-reveal-how-quickly-santa-travels

  Calculations reveal how quickly Santa travels Santa and reindeer|University of Leicester students have worked out just how fast Santa Claus has to travel to deliver all of his presents on time On Christmas Eve night, Santa Claus and his reindeer fly around the world...

• Plantings

  https://le.ac.uk/100-trees/plantings

  Global celebration On 4 October 2021 we marked our 100th Birthday in a celebration which brought together our students, staff, partners, alumni, friends and supporters from all around the world.

• Unravelling the Minion genome

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/unravelling-the-2018minion2019-genome

  Based on what we know of the minions from the popular Despicable Me films – and the Minions movie current playing at cinemas – they could, in theory, have a complex genetic make-up similar to humans, according to Natural Sciences students Krisho Manoharan and Ruth Sang Jones.

• How much do you know about the founders and early benefactors of our University? by Caroline Wessel

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/11/01/how-much-do-you-know-about-the-founders-and-early-benefactors-of-our-university-by-caroline-wessel/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on November 1, 2019 To celebrate our Centenary Years, Special Collections would like to share with you new research, which not only paints a picture of the how we were founded, but also the way of life and the connection of...

• Environmental Sustainability, Social Value and SME-Friendly Procurement

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/professional-services/finance/working/sustainability

  The University of Leicester will ensure that its procurement processes do not create unnecessary barriers for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Find out more about our SME friendly procurement policy.

• Attenborough Arts Centre shortlisted for Learning Programme of the Year

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/attenborough-arts-centre-heritage-museum-shortlist

  Attenborough Arts Centre’s SENsory Atelier programme has been nominated for bringing arts and culture to the classrooms of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).