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• Unheard interview with Sir David Attenborough about life in Leicester part of new University exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/attenborough

  A never before heard interview with Sir David Attenborough is featured in a new exhibition that has opened to the public at the University of Leicester).

• Launch of welding partnership bonds cutting edge research with industrial know-how

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/launch-of-welding-partnership-bonds-cutting-edge-research-with-industrial-know-how

  Launch of welding partnership bonds cutting edge research with industrial know-how Launch of welding partnership bonds cutting edge research with industrial know-how|A partnership forged between academia and industry aims to strengthen our knowledge of the science of welding...

• Digital life during the lockdown

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/digital-apps

  Virtual social apps are helping us make do as best we can in lonely, desperate times.

• New theory claims pterodactyls did not have feathers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/pterosaurs

  The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper from the University of Leicester refuting claims that feathers were found on dinosaurs’ close relative, the flying reptiles called pterosaurs.

• Viking grave discovery suggests warrior of high status was buried at Scottish site

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/viking-grave-discovery-suggests-warrior-of-high-status-was-buried-at-scottish-site

  New light has been shed on a 10th century Viking boat burial site at Swordle Bay in western Scotland, which was discovered by University researchers in 2011.

• Expert opinions cover Donald Trump South Africa British military Kurds and higher education

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/expert-opinions-cover

  In an article for The Conversation, Dr James Hamill from the School of History, Politics and International Relations discusses the current political climate in South Africa.

• Research into agricultural revolution in AngloSaxon England sheds new light on medieval land use

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/research-into-2018agricultural-revolution2019-in-anglo-saxon-england-sheds-new-light-on-medieval-land-use

  Researchers from our University will be shedding new light on how an ‘agricultural revolution’ in Anglo-Saxon England fueled the growth of towns and markets as part of a new project investigating medieval farming habits.

• Increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with shorter height

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/increased-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease-could-be-associated-with-shorter-height

  The shorter you are, the more your risk of coronary heart disease, according to a new study led by Professor Sir Nilesh Samani (pictured), British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences.

• Women are more fairly funded in the social sciences

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/women-are-more-fairly-funded-in-the-social-sciences

  Accounting for academic position, women are as successful as men at winning grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and they receive grants that are actually slightly larger than those won by men.

• Are we entering a new age

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/are-we-entering-a-new-age

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured) from the Department of Geology has been interviewed by Academic Minute discussing the Anthropocene and whether mankind has entered a new age.