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• Responsible consumption

  https://le.ac.uk/sustainability/impacts/responsible-consumption

  Learn how we are reducing our resource and water consumption, and reusing resources whenever possible, incorporating circular economy principles.

• Climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change

  Reducing our environmental negative impact Avoid 100 Increasing our positive impact and offsetting Mitigate 200 Readying our campus for a changing world Adapt 250 Teaching and innovating for a better world Positive Impact 300 Climate Change Strategy (PDF, 463kb) Climate...

• DNA and family history explored in public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

  The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.

• Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth

  Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.

• Report explores the value we place in arts and culture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/report-explores-the-value-we-place-in-arts-and-culture

  Professor Mark Banks (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has written a report for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Cultural Value Project – a two-year project exploring how we think about the value of arts and culture to individuals...

• Tobias Gould

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/entrepreneurs-in-residence/tobias-gould

  Tobias is a social entrepreneur and business leader, founder of jerrybottle.com, and co-author of the Government’s flagship ‘Help to Grow’ programme delivered by 50 universities across the UK.

• 2019 news

  https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/contemporary-environments/anthropocene-research-group/news/2019

  2 November 2019 Climate Change and the City As part of the ESRC Social Science Festival, “Climate Change and the City” looked at the challenges posed to Cities and Citizens around consumption, production and the future of education.

• Leicester universities’ funding success for local improvement project

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/local-acceleration-fund

  The University of Leicester and De Montfort University have been awarded £171,000 for an innovative project working in partnerships with local groups to gain insight and improve services in core areas including education, health, and environmental sustainability.

• Free public event explores the 1911 ‘All India’ cricket tour of England

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/30-cricket-event

  A fascinating chapter in cricket history will be explored at a free public event on Tuesday 1 October when Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor of colonial urban history, discusses the first ever Indian tour of England in 1911.

• International day marks the issues behind avoidable deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/avoidable-deaths-network-international-awareness-day

  The third instalment of an annual global day of awareness of the issues around avoidable deaths takes place this week.