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• Scientists investigate bumblebee decline due to particulate pollutant exposure

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/bees-gut-microbiome-pollution

  By studying bumblebee exposure to particulate air pollutants scientists at the University of Leicester have determined that the diversity and behaviour of the bee gut microbial community is altered when exposed to black carbon found in air pollution, disrupting the beneficial...

• 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.

• 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...

• Year in industry with Deutsche Bank sets student Cybill Smith up for a career at Barclays

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/year-in-industry-with-deutsche-bank-sets-student-cybill-smith-up-for-a-career-at-barclays

  One of this week’s graduating students has expressed how pausing academic study, to spend a year working for Deutsche Bank, was an invaluable experience in terms of developing her professional skills and preparing her for the next step in her career.

• University shortlisted in Royal College of Midwives awards for excellence

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/rcm-awards

  The University of Leicester has been shortlisted in three categories for the prestigious Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Awards 2023

• Procurement

  https://le.ac.uk/brexit/procurement

  The potential impact of Brexit on University suppliers and procurement is based around the lack of access to EU markets and a fall in the value of the Pound.

• Satellite project will monitor Kenyas forests in near realtime

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/satellite-project-will-monitor-kenya2019s-forests-in-near-real-time

  Leicester researchers will be travelling to Kenya from 25 – 29 April to kick off a new satellite project that aims to monitor the world’s forests in near real-time.

• Real world link discovered between type 2 diabetes and low blood sugar risk

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/real-world2019-link-discovered-between-type-2-diabetes-and-low-blood-sugar-risk

  A research team from the Leicester Diabetes Centre, led by postgraduate researcher Chloe Louise Edridge, has reviewed a series of studies into how often hypoglycaemia – or low blood sugar – occurs in people with type 2 diabetes and has discovered that the condition is...

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/117/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Genetics and genealogy

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics

  More about the genealogical detective work involved in identifying King Richard III. Mitochondrial DNA and the Y-chromosome were used, after all these years, for the DNA identification purposes.