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• 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.

• Bonds latest technique could give criminals a nasty shock

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/bonds-latest-technique-could-give-criminals-a-nasty-shock

  A new crime-fighting technique developed by Dr John Bond OBE from the Department of Criminology could leave criminals shaken - and a little bit stirred.

• Research finds Earths technosphere now weighs 30 trillion tons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-finds-earths-2018technosphere2019-now-weighs-30-trillion-tons

  An international team led by our geologists has made the first estimate of the sheer size of the physical structure of the planet’s technosphere – suggesting that its mass approximates to an enormous 30 trillion tons.

• Art Museums and Galleries Spring School 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/events/spring-school

  Free online event organised by School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.

• Personalised treatment in B cell malignancies

  https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/research/personalised-treatment-in-b-cell-malignancies

  Research theme leads: Professor Martin Dyer; Dr Harriet Walter, Dr Matt Ahearne Thanks to the generous philanthropic support of The Scott-Waudby Charitable Trust, the University of Leicester has been able to establish the Haematological Research Theme which supports both...

• Cultural activity within historic houses

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/cultural-activity-within-historic-houses

  Investigating the needs, interests and challenges facing historic houses in the East Midlands to develop cultural provision for children and young people

• Visits to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/visits-to-leicester

  Richard III visited Leicester often, both as a boy and as Duke of Gloucester. Find out about his final stay in Leicester at the Blue Boar Inn.

• University lecturer honoured with 2023 British Psychological Society Award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/spiller

  Dr Jayne Spiller has received the Neil O’Connor Award for her research into sleep and its association with behavioural and emotional symptoms in children born extremely preterm