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• Psychologists create first-ever body-maps of hallucinations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/psychosis-hallucinations

  Psychosis is a term which describes experiences where an individual may have difficulties in determining what is real and what is not real.  Research indicates psychosis is associated with experiencing trauma, adverse life events, and stress.

• Study suggests seated upper body physical activity can reduce risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes made worse by sitting

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/study-suggests-seated-upper-body-physical-activity-can-reduce-risk-of-heart-disease-and-type-2-diabetes-made-worse-by-sitting

  A new study conducted at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), including researchers from our University, has found that breaking up prolonged bouts of restful sitting with short, frequent bouts of simple seated arm exercises can benefit obese patients at high...

• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

  https://le.ac.uk/enterprise/research/ktp

  With Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, you’ll discover that a little innovation can go a very long way. KTP comes in to provide the links to the expertise you need to grow your business and gain a competitive edge.

• Lorna Unwin

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/lorna-unwin

  We have learned, with sadness, of the recent passing of Professor Lorna Unwin, who was Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies in the 2000s.

• Leicester study to improve crop plants

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

  Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.

• About us

  https://le.ac.uk/cehs/hpru/about-us

  NIHR Health Protection Research Units (HPRUs) are partnerships between universities and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in England.

• Highlights for the School of Politics and International Relations research in REF2021

  https://le.ac.uk/politics/ref2021

  The School of Politics & International Relations research highlights in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

• Top 25 for Earth Sciences research in REF2021

  https://le.ac.uk/gge/ref2021

  We are delighted with our recent performance in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021), in which we placed top 25 in the UK for our overall research quality (GPA) (according to analysis by the Times Higher Education).

• 11th for Arts research in REF2021

  https://le.ac.uk/arts/ref2021

  The School of Arts research highlights in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

• Research

  https://le.ac.uk/hopkinson-group/research

  Find out more about the research undertaken in the Hopkinson Group by Dr Richard Hopkinson and his team at the University of Leicester.