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Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/albatross-foraging
Dr Eric Guiry is Lecturer in Biomolecular Archaeology at the University of Leicester and corresponding author for the study, which focused on two locations close to Yuquot, Canada, and compared findings to sites in the USA, Russia and Japan.
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Weapons of plant production
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/plant-production
Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison researches the modification of genetic makeup to make stronger and healthier species of plants to help tackle poverty and ensure survival.
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Child Poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/01/child-poverty/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2013 Through young eyes – three million children are living in poverty in the UK according to the Children’s Commission on Poverty survey published by the Children’s Society Also recently...
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Who is a leader?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/08/09/who-is-a-leader/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on August 9, 2018 One of my professors was sceptical when I told her I had been accepted onto the Leadership and Management Academic Foundation Programme.
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About us
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/contemporary-environments/anthropocene-research-group/about-us
As the Interdisciplinary Anthropocene Research Group we are researching global challenges and exploring the complex ways in which socio-economic ecosystems impact the Earth System.
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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.
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The Anti-Corruption Summit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/the-anti-corruption-summit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 The Anti-Corruption Summit has taken place in London. The UK government website contains the proposals for international reform.
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What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles
But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.
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Onward to Mars
https://le.ac.uk/space/patrick-moore
By Sir Patrick Moore Mars, the red planet, has always had a special fascination for us. It is our nearest celestial neighbour apart from the Moon and Venus, and it is more Earthlike than any other planet.
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World’s first disability hate crime conference will help to tackle Britain’s shameful problem
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/disability-hate-crime
For the first time ever, victims, academics, support organisations and elements of the criminal justice system will meet to discuss the impact of disability hate crime.