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Substandard diabetes care letting people down
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/2018substandard2019-diabetes-care-letting-people-down
Simple measures to improve diabetes care and pick up complications are being ignored leading to “substandard” treatment, a prominent diabetes GP and researcher has said.
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Pet Shop Boys visit the Orton collection
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-pet-shop-boys
Photo: Phil Fisk|Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, aka Pet Shop Boys, recently visited the Orton Collection at the University of Leicester during a trip to the city to attend a rehearsal of Hanif Kureishi’s play My Beautiful Laundrette at Curve, for which they wrote new music.
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Researchers to explore the use of e-cigarettes by young people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/researchers-to-explore-the-use-of-e-cigarettes-by-young-people
A research team led by our University will be exploring how young people use e-cigarettes or ‘vape’ as part of a new project funded by Cancer Research UK entitled 'Adolescent Vaping Careers'.
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Crime writer and creator of Inspector Morse dies
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/crime-writer-and-creator-of-inspector-morse-dies
The University has learnt of the death of the author Colin Dexter, most famous for creating the character of Inspector Morse and the series of thirteen novels that he features in.
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Section 6 - The Senate
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/documents/statutes/senate
Read Section 6 of our Statutes, entitled The Senate. This section outlines the organisational structure of the Senate and the Senate’s powers.
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Research lunches
https://le.ac.uk/cssp/events/research
Find out more about the research lunches scheduled for the coming year in the School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy at Leicester.
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Mirror
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/mirror
Mirror was a collaborative project which aimed to enhance communities of practice in the area of natural history museum exhibition development.
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RefugEAP Programme
https://le.ac.uk/cite/sanctuary-seekers-unit/initiatives/refugeap
Access free online academic English programme RefugEAP for refugees in the UK developed by University of Leicester and University of Leeds and taught by volunteer EAP tutors
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Expert opinions cover heart disease migraines Salisbury and World Sleep Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/expert-opinions-cover-heart-attacks-migraines-salisbury-and-world-sleep-day
In an article for The Conversation, Dr Tom Webb and Professors Alison Goodall and Shu Ye have discussed possible reasons why age is such as strong risk factor for heart disease.
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Rhyme and ride with Arriva as Leicester gets literary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/rhyme-and-ride-with-arriva-as-leicester-gets-literary
Today, Leicester-based poet and performer Lydia Towsey will be hopping on and off local bus services to entertain passengers and raise awareness of Literary Leicester- our 10th celebration of the literary arts.