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• Engineering and Archaeology researchers to join forces against climate crisis at international conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/engineering-the-past

  An interdisciplinary team of researchers will look to identify ways of tackling the climate crisis at an international conference hosted at the University of Leicester this March.

• Air pollution to become worlds leading cause of premature death by 2050

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/air-pollution-to-become-world2019s-leading-cause-of-premature-death-by-2050

  Leading experts will be discussing prominent environmental issues - including how air pollution will become the world’s top environmental cause of premature death in the coming decades - at an event on Wednesday 25 November.

• Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh

  Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences have shaped, and can shape, our thinking about the climate emergency.

• Britishness and diverse communities in a post-Brexit world

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/26-britishness-and-diverse-communities-in-a-post-brexit-world

  Lord Parekh to discuss the crisis of British identity for University of Leicester public lecture on 1 November

• Materials

  https://le.ac.uk/enterprise/expertise/medicine-science-technology/materials

  With an increasing global population and a need to minimise environmental impact for future generations, the development of new materials is an essential building block for many sectors.

• Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene

  A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.

• Leicester expert discusses UK journalism with the BBC

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicester-expert-discusses-uk-journalism-with-the-bbc

  Tor Clark (pictured), Associate Professor in Journalism from our School of Media, Communication and Sociology, has recently appeared on BBC Radio Leicester discussing the current state of UK journalism and the role newspapers played in the outcome of the recent General Election.

• PhD student develops cancer survival prediction tool

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/phd-student-develops-cancer-survival-prediction-tool

  Researchers from the Department of Health Sciences have developed an online tool which presents a variety of measures that quantify the survival of patients with cancer from different perspectives.

• Recruitment partner, educational advisor, counsellors and agent complaints process

  https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/how-to-apply/international-agent-complaints-process

  Find out how to make a complaint about a University of Leicester recruitment partner, educational advisor, counsellors or agent.

• A Catalyst for Change

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/catalyst-for-change

  An innovative project to take museum collections out to those communities which the museum service had failed to reach