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• Future health technology needs to take into account children and young people’s preferences, say researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/health-technologies

  Health technology should be easy to use, have the ability to be personalised, allow the user to choose how their information is shared and where possible, have in-built games and incentives according to children and young people

• Wellcome boost for PhD programme to tackle Leicester’s healthcare inequalities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/wellcome-phd

  The University of Leicester has been granted a major funding boost by the Wellcome Trust to provide improvements to healthcare inequalities in Leicestershire. A grant of up to £7.

• Juno and Hubble data reveal electromagnetic ‘tug-of-war’ lights up Jupiter’s upper atmosphere

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/02/03/juno-and-hubble-data-reveal-electromagnetic-tug-of-war-lights-up-jupiters-upper-atmosphere/

  New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex ‘tug-of-war’ lights up aurorae in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NASA’s Juno probe and the Hubble Space Telescope.

• Space images confirm England’s drought areas correlate with high land surface temperatures

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/08/16/space-images-confirm-englands-drought-areas-correlate-with-high-land-surface-temperatures/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 16 August 2022 Earth Observation (EO) experts from the University of Leicester have highlighted the correlation between land surface temperatures and drought-affected areas of the United Kingdom using data...

• Multi-million pound boost for University of Leicester’s ability to improve and save lives

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/brc-funding

  The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has been funded for £26 million over the next five years.

• Leicester’s league table rise shows students really dig their digs

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/uni-compare

  Satisfied students who are impressed with their accommodation are behind the University of Leicester’s dramatic rise in a national league table.

• Social stress key to population’s rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/covid-19-social-stress

  Mathematicians have analysed global COVID-19 data to identify two constants which can drastically change a country’s rate of infection.

• University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies Finalist at Royal Television Society Awards 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/harms-of-hate

  The University of Leicester's Centre for Hate Studies was a finalist at the 2024 RTS Awards.

• With Tommy Hilfiger’s ‘smart’ clothing range, data collection has reached dystopian levels

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/07/31/with-tommy-hilfigers-smart-clothing-range-data-collection-has-reached-dystopian-levels/

  Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on July 31, 2018 In an article for The Independent, Dr Phoebe Moore discusses how ambassadors will be rewarded for walking past Tommy Jeans stores and how we are becoming a resource for surveillance and profit making   The...

• Super rare and venomous centipede found in University of Leicester academic’s home

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/centipede

  Explore the intriguing discovery of Scutigera coleoptrata, the fastest-moving centipede in the world, in Nottinghamshire, UK.