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Goal 13: Climate Action
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/climate-change
The thirteenth Sustainable Development Goal is to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
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Cervical cancer research receives important boost
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/cervical-cancer-research-receives-important-boost
A prospective research programme in Leicester to improve the lives of women who have undergone treatment for cervical cancer has received a cash injection.
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Zoo poo might hold the secrets to new medical treatments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/phages-dudley-zoo-poo
Scientists at the University of Leicester are hoping the collection of poo from tigers, elephants, rhinos and other exotic animals, could contain the secret to finding new medical treatments.
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Discover the amazing benefits of volunteering
https://le.ac.uk/engagement/community/making-a-difference/benefits
benefits
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University of Leicester Professor of Astrobiology chosen to attend NATO panel
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/astrobiology-professor-attend-nato-panel
Professor Mark Sims took part in the the NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO) Systems Concepts and Integration (SCI) Panel Research Specialists’ Meeting on dual-use space technology
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Supporting assessment tasks in seminars and group tutorials
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/09/18/supporting-assessment-tasks-in-seminars-and-group-tutorials/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 18, 2019 This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production.
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Distrust of Employer’s Responses to COVID-19 Could Increase Both Presenteeism and Absenteeism in UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/05/20/distrust-of-employers-responses-to-covid-19-could-increase-both-presenteeism-and-absenteeism-in-uk-workplaces/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on May 20, 2020 People’s trust in their employer’s response to COVID-19 will shape their attitudes to returning to the workplace, Professor Stephen Wood writes.
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10x Future Technologies Virgin Money and ULSB Inspiring Women into Fintech
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/10x-future-technologies-virgin-money-and-ulsb-inspiring-women-into-fintech
Twenty-five Leicester students travelled to London to attend the ‘Inspiring Women into Fintech’ event in the unique setting of 10x Future Technologies and Virgin Money offices near Victoria Station.
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Student initiative seeks to improve global animal welfare
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/student-initiative-seeks-to-improve-global-animal-welfare
A student initiative led by the University of Leicester’s Student Animal Legal Defense Fund Chapter is seeking to improve animal welfare on a global scale.
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Discovery of Hadrosaur footprint over 30 years ago was first dinosaur fossil finding in Scotland
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/student-discovery-of-2018hadrosaur2019-footprint-over-30-years-ago-was-first-dinosaur-fossil-finding-in-scotland
Recent discoveries in Patagonia and other parts of South America as part of a four-year study has revealed a ‘mass grave’ littered with charred bone fragments of the ‘duck-billed’ Hadrosaur which has helped describe how changing environmental conditions led to the extinction...