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• Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the ageing process

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/wasp-aging-leicester-biological

  Scientists at the University of Leicester have discovered that jewel wasps can slow down their biological rate of ageing

• World-class empathy experts receive top awards at international conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/empathy-awards-international-conference

  Two of the world’s leading experts in empathic healthcare have been recognised for their exceptional contribution to the field at a ground-breaking international conference in Leicester.

• Landmark study reveals hidden frailty crisis in young heart attack patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/heart-attack-frailty-health-risk-leicester

  Researchers in Leicester have uncovered a major blind spot in the way doctors assess future health risk in young adults who suffer a heart attack.

• Major heart attack study reveals ‘survival paradox’: Frail men at higher risk of death than women despite better treatment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/heart-attack-frailty-sex-leicester

  Pioneering research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to heart attack care, adding critical nuance to the debate on sex disparities

• Methods in Applied Health Research CPD

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/cpd-quantitative-and-qualitative-research-methods/2026

  This is for you if... you want to increase your understanding of how research contributes to health care and the range of methods used.

• On the day

  https://le.ac.uk/graduation/on-the-day

  Find out how graduation day at the University of Leicester works.

• Sludge in Healthcare

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/10/18/82/

  Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on October 18, 2018   This week Richard Thaler, who wrote ‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness  ’, published “Nudge, Not Sludge” in Science .

• Physics Research Bites are back! The Solar System from JWST

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/10/10/physics-research-bites-are-back-the-solar-system-from-jwst/

  Interested in getting a glimpse of the latest research happening right here at the University of Leicester? Join us Friday 14th October in Room E (F23) of the physics building for the first Research Bites talk of the year; featuring Dr Henrik Melin discussing the recent...

• PGR Careers blog University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2014/07/02/uol-phd-researcher-wins-cumberland-lodge-scholarship/

  PGR Careers blog from the University of Leicester

• vholmes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/catherine_holmes/

  World Digital Preservation Day 2025: Why Preserve? Posted by vholmes in Library and Learning Services on November 6, 2025 To celebrate World Digital Preservation Day 2025, we are posting about the recent project to identify, take in and preserve material relating to the...