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• Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing

  Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.

• Cost of Attendance

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/fees-funding/us-loans/cost-of-attendance

  The Cost of Attendance (COA) is the maximum amount of money a student can borrow in order to pay their tuition fees, living expenses and other costs associated with their course for an academic year.

• Supporting individuals to speak out

  https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/medrace/medrace-projects/speaking-out

  A summary of MedRACE projects that support students to speak out about inequalities and issues of inclusion, racism or discrimination.

• Academic awarded funding for involvement in global sensor data project

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/diabetes

  A researcher based at the Leicester Diabetes Centre has received international funding for his participation in a project that aims to analyse the health benefits of wearable technology

• Protein levels in urine are reliable measure of effectiveness in kidney disease research says study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/14-protein-urine-kidney-disease

  An international consortium of doctors and scientists, including members from Leicester’s Hospitals and the University of Leicester, has found that protein levels in urine are a reliable way to measure the effectiveness of a medicine, device or treatment on the progress of...

• Medical students meet best-selling author, comedian and NHS psychiatrist, Dr Benji Waterhouse

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/medical-students-benji-waterhouse-leicester

  It’s not every day you get to meet a best-selling author, comedian and NHS psychiatrist, but that's what Medical with Foundation Year Students at the University of Leicester did.

• Leicester scientists set to visit schools as part of a mobile science lab designed to spark students’ interest in STEM subjects

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/curiosity-cube

  A traveling mobile science lab developed and created by science and technology company Merck, is set to spark the interest of Leicestershire’s young people when it comes to visit

• Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope

  Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average weight loss of nearly 10kg, according to a new study published in The Lancet today.

• Leicester PhD student one of UKs top conservationists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/leicester-phd-student-in-uks-top-50-conservationists-list

  Tim Mackrill (pictured left), a PhD student in our Department of Genetics and Senior reserve officer of the Rutland Osprey Project, has featured at number 34 in the BBC Wildlife Magazine's top 50 conservation heroes in the UK.

• New anthology Unstitching Silence brings together Caribbean voices to address gender-based violence

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/unstitching-silence

  A new anthology featuring writing from Caribbean writers has been edited by University of Leicester's Dr Lucy Evans and Shivanee Ramlochan.