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• Professor receives Honorary Fellowship for his outstanding work in pain management

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/honorary-fellowship

  Professor David Lambert, Professor of Anaesthetic Pharmacology, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

• Predicting the impact of illness – and its remedies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/predicting-the-impact-of-illness-2013-and-its-remedies

  Predicting the impact of illness – and its remedies Predicting the impact of illness – and its remedies 1425|Comprehensive approach to modelling healthcare in populations developed at Leicester could help to plan NHS services A new method of modelling illness across...

• Exercise shown to improve symptoms of patients with chronic kidney disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/exercise-shown-to-improve-symptoms-of-patients-with-chronic-kidney-disease

  Just 12 weeks of aerobic and strength-based exercise reduces symptoms and levels of fatigue in patients with chronic kidney disease, Leicester researchers have shown.

• Guilty or not guilty Public will decide during interactive forensic science event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/guilty-or-not-guilty-public-will-decide-during-interactive-forensic-science-event

  Members of the public will be deciding the outcome of two realistic criminal trials based on two real murder cases as part of an exciting interactive event during the Cheltenham Science Festival (5 – 10 June).

• Written in the stars TV and radio science presenter Professor Jim AlKhalili to discuss the role of determinism in our universe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/written-in-the-stars-tv-and-radio-science-presenter-professor-jim-al-khalili-to-discuss-the-role-of-determinism-in-our-universe

  Do you consider your actions the result of free will, or of a preordained path we are destined to follow? At the Institute of Physics 2018 Prestige Lecture, hosted at our University, physicist and presenter Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE will lead a whistle-stop tour of modern...

• Motor Cities

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/motor-cities

  Leverhulme Research Project Grant (£154,757) October 2011-September 2014 Professor Simon Gunn and Dr Susan Townsend (University of Nottingham) In the last half century the automobile has transformed life in cities across much of the globe, offering unprecedented freedom...

• Stirring things up in the Earths mantle

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/stirring-things-up-in-the-earths-mantle

  New insights into the convection patterns of the Earth’s mantle and its chemical makeup have been revealed by a researcher from our Department of Geology.

• The hunt for the Christmas meteorite

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-hunt-for-the-christmas-meteorite

  An article by the BBC discussing a 4.5bn-year 'Christmas meteorite' - the biggest to hit the UK - which crashed on Christmas Eve, 1965, in the village of Barwell in Leicestershire has quoted Dr Leigh Fletcher from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

• Centre for Hate Studies Commissioned to Evaluate Victim Support Services

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/centre-for-hate-studies-commissioned-to-evaluate-victim-support-services

  Leicester criminologists have been commissioned by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire to lead a project designed to inform the development of a new hate crime strategy and victims’ support service.

• Leicester geneticist involved in internet for DNA

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-geneticist-involved-in-internet-for-dna

  Scientists at the University of Leicester are playing a central role in the development of what is being described as ‘an internet for DNA’.