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• UK fashion manufacturing survey reveals experience of unfair purchasing practices

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/uk-fashion-manufacturing-survey-unfair-purchasing-practices

  Results from a survey of UK clothing manufacturers, analysed by academics from the University of Leicester, University of Nottingham and independent trade justice charity Transform Trade, have revealed unfair purchasing practices by brands and retailers are commonplace within...

• Leicester alumni boost research into student vaccine uptake

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/alumni-covid-funding

  Research focused on improving vaccine uptake in university students has been given a boost this week after the University of Leicester’s Alumni Association Committee made a generous donation of £5,000 to the University’s Vice-Chancellor Nishan Canagarajah on Monday 21st...

• National programme to detect climate tipping points harnesses Leicester expertise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/detect-tipping-points-climate-research

  University of Leicester’s Professor Valerio Lucarini will lead a work package for Advancing Tipping Point Early Warning (AdvanTip) project

• New evidence traces herpes virus back almost 5,000 years

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/herpes-genome

  Researchers have mapped the genetic structure of the herpes virus and, for the first time, traced its European origin back almost 5,000 years.

• Award-winning satellite ecosystem protection project developed by Leicester researchers showcased to Kenyan President

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/forest-alert

  An award-winning satellite project developed by researchers at the University of Leicester with support from the National Centre for Earth Observation has been showcased as part President Kenyatta’s visit to London, where he marked the UK-Kenya partnership on climate change.

• Foodborne disease

  https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/foodborne-disease

  Food-borne infections are a direct cause of mortality, but can also increase susceptibility to other communicable and non-communicable diseases.

• Leicester expert leads fight to cut India’s annual toll of 50,000 snakebite deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/india-snakes

  A University of Leicester academic is using her expertise to help India cut the number of fatalities from snake-bites.

• Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/albatross-foraging

  Dr Eric Guiry is Lecturer in Biomolecular Archaeology at the University of Leicester and corresponding author for the study, which focused on two locations close to Yuquot, Canada, and compared findings to sites in the USA, Russia and Japan.

• Faith fights diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/faith-fights-diabetes

  Our University has joined a community group in Leicester to fight diabetes. Members of the Dawoodi Bohra Community have organised a diabetes awareness walk in Victoria Park on Sunday 25 March.

• Innovative UK-led space technology takes off on BepiColombo mission to Mercury

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/18-bepicolombo

  BepiColombo MIXS Instrument - Mission to Mercury -t0H3nz_nkI MIXS instrument The MIXS instrument 700|With £6.