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• Putting satellite data in farmers’ hands to improve food security

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/farming-earth-observation

  PhD project at University of Leicester aims to get more farmers in Kenya and the UK using Earth Observation (E.O) data, allowing them to plan better for extreme weather, boosting climate resilience and food security

• Expert opinions cover overdiagnosis and the departure of Sam Allardyce as England football manager

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/expert-opinions-cover-overdiagnosis-and-the-departure-of-sam-allardyce

  John Williams from the School of Media, Communication and Sociology has written an article for The Conversation discussing the departure of Sam Allardyce from the job of England football manager.

• New exercise app using space data aims to help those with long-term health conditions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/p-step

  A personalised new exercise app for people with long-term health conditions including heart and lung disease and diabetes is set to be piloted by researchers from the University of Leicester.

• Videos highlight Leicesters leading space expertise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/videos-highlight-leicesters-leading-space-expertise-at-great-festival

  Leicester’s leading expertise in cutting-edge space research has been showcased in a series of videos captured during the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong, which is organised by the UK’s Department for International Trade and took place in March of this year.

• Leicester staff celebrate victory for the blues

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-staff-celebrate-victory-for-the-blues

  Not content with showing their true-blue colours in advance of Leicester City Football club’s arguably season-clinching game on Sunday, our staff are celebrating the local football heroes’ confirmed Premier League victory on Monday in a variety of ways.

• The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on...

• Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study

  A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges

• Leicestershire employers learn best practice at environmental pollution event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/mattioli-woods

  Leicestershire industry and business leaders learnt about the increasing danger of everyday atmospheric pollution at a University of Leicester event.

• The Leicester Employability Day

  https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/post-16/employability-day

  Find out more about the Leicester Employability Day which may be of particular interest to young Black people of African, Caribbean and Dual Heritage.

• UK climate instruments to measure fluctuations in greenhouse gas levels

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/uk-climate-instruments-hitch-a-ride-on-nasa2019s-global-hawk

  Two cutting-edge science instruments developed by UK researchers have taken to the skies aboard NASA’s Global Hawk research aircraft for the first time.