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                    Why the universal age-happiness ‘U-shape’ is a mythhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/u-shape-happiness New research shows that happiness often does not increase as people get older. 
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                    Lord Willetts appointed chair of the UK Space Agency’s Boardhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/uksa-willetts University of Leicester Chancellor David, Lord Willetts has been appointed as the new chair of the UK Space Agency’s Board. 
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                    University of Leicester celebrates top 1.6% global sustainability rankinghttps://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/the-sustainability-ranking The University of Leicester is once again celebrating global sustainability success after being ranked among the top global universities for its contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking. 
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                    Leicester Vice-Chancellor responds to Sutton Trust’s Elitist Britain reporthttps://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/leicester-vice-chancellor-sutton-trust-elitist-britain-report A report published this week explored the educational backgrounds of leading figures across the world of politics, media, business, charity, sport, creative and public sectors. 
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                    Looking Forward – Looking Backhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/08/29/looking-forward-looking-back/ Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 29, 2018 In the now dated ‘Western’ movie ‘Paint your Wagon’, Lee Marvin ‘sings’ (talks) his way through the song ‘I was born under a wandering star’. 
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                    What I Wish I had Known Before Doing This PhDhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2021/01/21/what-i-wish-i-had-known-before-doing-this-phd/ Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on January 21, 2021 Today’s post is from Graham Frobisher, who is currently studying part-time for a PhD. Let’s get the elephant firmly out of the room, at the age of 73 I am not a typical or even normal PhD student. 
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                    School of Business Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/page/2/ Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester 
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                    Student achievementshttps://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/study/research-degrees/student-achievements See the prizes awarded to and achievements gained by postgraduate research students in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester. 
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                    Biggest leap in identified lung health genes paves way for personalised risk scorehttps://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/lung-health-genes New Nature Genetics study led by Universities of Leicester and Nottingham finds over 500 genes linked to lung health, providing new targets for potential therapeutics 
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                    University of Leicester joins launch of AMAST Network to battle AMR in the agrifood systemhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/amast Leicester scientists partner in new network to identify risks of antimicrobial resistance and barriers to action for farms and livestock producers