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• Report suggests current responses to hate crime in the UK are failing and letting down victims

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/report-suggests-current-responses-to-hate-crime-in-the-uk-are-failing-and-letting-down-victims

  Hate crime victims throughout the United Kingdom are being let down by the Government and criminal justice agencies, according to a new report undertaken by Leicester experts in collaboration with Amnesty International UK.

• Leicester researcher receives funding for genomic research to tackle incurable lung diseases

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-researcher-receives-funding-for-genomic-research-to-tackle-incurable-lung-diseases

  Professor Louise Wain, a researcher in our Department of Health Sciences, has been awarded a personal Chair (Professorship) and a £400,000 grant to conduct ground-breaking research by the British Lung Foundation.

• Project to explore how survival of British hedgehogs is affected by changing climate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/project-to-explore-how-survival-of-british-hedgehogs-is-affected-by-changing-climate

  Researchers from our University will be exploring how the UK’s changing climate could be affecting the survival of British hedgehogs as part of a new project to protect endangered animal species.

• Research suggests controversial test could be leading to unnecessary open heart operations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/research-suggests-controversial-test-could-be-leading-to-unnecessary-open-heart-operations

  An approved international test to check whether people need open heart surgery could be sending twice as many people under the knife unnecessarily, at a cost of nearly £75m, research by our University has suggested.

• University expert to discuss how Leicester could do regeneration differently

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/university-expert-to-discuss-how-leicester-could-do-regeneration-differently2019

  Leicester has an opportunity to learn from the mistakes of gentrification in cities worldwide and to pioneer a unique approach to regeneration that has the potential to become a Leicester brand, according to a Professor from our University.

• Leicester teams lead the podium in Formula 1 aerodynamics race

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-teams-lead-the-podium-in-formula-1-aerodynamics-race

  Two teams from the University's Department of Engineering took the top two positions on the podium in the second race of the UniFi Motorsport competition.

• Success for student entrepreneur in national space challenge competition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/success-for-student-entrepreneur-in-national-space-challenge-competition

  A Leicester student is among only nine young space entrepreneurs to have won a share of £50K for innovative ideas on how to use satellite data to improve life on Earth.

• Mary Curnock Cook CBE

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/council/membership/mary-curnock-cook

  Building on a successful executive career, leading strategic transformation and growth, Mary has a portfolio of non-executive education-related roles including chairing the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology and Pearson’s UK qualifications business, and as a...

• Dr Chris Bayliss' projects

  https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/research-degrees/phd-projects/bayliss

  Browse the PhD projects offered for supervision by Dr Chris Bayliss in the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester.

• TCS project

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/tcs-project

  The project aimed to test a piece of learning software developed for an array of projects in the tertiary education and cultural heritage sectors.