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• Research group appeals for local parents

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/parent-advisory-group

  The Leicester City Football Club (LCFC) Programme of Research at the University of Leicester is seeking help to improve its work into the health of babies and young children and would like to hear from parents.

• Diabetes risk score translation event taking place in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/diabetes-risk-score-translation-event-taking-place-in-leicester

  An event to launch the translation of a Type 2 diabetes risk assessment tool into two South Asian languages takes place in Leicester next week.

• About GCRF at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/research/gcrf/about

  From tackling COVID-19 and its effects on communities around the world, to fighting tuberculosis in South Africa, to using forensic DNA to bring justice for sexual abuse victims in Kenya, or improving child mental health in Turkey, we are...

• Criticality, objectivity and values-neutrality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/11/21/criticality-objectivity-and-values-neutrality/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 21, 2017 ‘While it is advisable to interrogate our research to see if we’re not engaging in wishful thinking and to make sure it is capable of acknowledging possible...

• Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-thames-molluscs

  In the last few decades, the life of London’s River Thames has been transformed.

• Worlds biggest study of genetics of lung health and disease allows scientists to predict chance of developing COPD

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/world2019s-biggest-study-of-genetics-of-lung-health-and-disease-allows-scientists-to-predict-chance-of-developing-copd

  The world’s biggest study into an individual’s genetic make-up and the risk of developing lung disease could allow scientists to more accurately ‘predict’ - based on genes and smoking - your chance of developing COPD, a deadly disease which is the third commonest cause of...

• Glynis Wright MBE

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

  Dr Glynis Wright MBE is an alumna of the University of Leicester and a well-known businesswoman and lawyer who made a career U-turn at the age of 40 to train for the legal profession.

• Esteemed Leicester University professor hands over reins of celebrated Space Research Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/space-research-centre-head

  A professor who has been the driving force in advancing space research and exploration at the University of Leicester for more than four decades has handed over the reins of the newly named Space Projects and Instrumentation Group.

• Planetary Atmospheres

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/planetary-science/planetary-atmospheres

  Planetary atmospheres exhibit an incredible diversity across the worlds of our Solar System, from the enormous hydrogen-rich atmospheres of the Gas Giants, to the terrestrial atmospheres of Venus, Earth, Mars and Titan, to the tenuous and thin air surrounding worlds like...

• Historic female firsts captured on canvas

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/historic-female-firsts-captured-on-canvas-1

  Today (5 March) the University of Leicester has recognised, on its walls and in its paintings, the contribution of three women who have, through their work and lives helped to create the University.