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Awards for eye research at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/awards-for-eye-research-at-leicester
Award-winning eye research from our University has been recognised at a national event. A University researcher won an award for his work in the world’s first study of its type to assess how infant eye defects can affect future vision.
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Are economists in touch with ordinary voters?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/are-economists-in-touch-with-ordinary-voters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Find out by reading the results of this interesting recent survey from the Centre for Macroeconomics. It also covers Brexit- why did votes ignore the advice of economists.
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Distributed and High-Performance AI Systems
https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/groups/distributed-and-high-performance-ai-systems
The Distributed AI Systems group provides theoretical and practical innovations in data intensive distributed systems (including clouds, HPC and quantum data centres), distributed machine learning models and self-adapting and physics informed digital twins to emulate the real...
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Meet the Richard III team
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/meet-the-team
The success of the Greyfriars project and the subsequent identification of Richard III is based on the expertise of academic and research staff at the University of Leicester.
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Is working overtime bad for you? Some interesting evidence from Higher education.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-working-overtime-bad-for-you-some-interesting-evidence-from-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 This article mentioned in the Times Higher last week had the headline Do some overtime (but not too much) It is based on this article: Fontinha, R., Easton, S., & Van Laar, D.
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Don’t Look Away: No place for exclusion of LGBTI students (UNESCO)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/dont-look-away-no-place-for-exclusion-of-lgbti-students-unesco/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 International LGBTQI Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) and UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report released findings from research and surveys on the situation of LGBTQI...
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UNESCO: Guidance on Generative AI in Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/06/unesco-guidance-on-generative-ai-in-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2023 UNESCO publishes the first-ever global Guidance on Generative AI in Education and Research , designed to address the disruptions caused by Generative AI technologies.
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Researchers use NASA’s Webb to map weather of planet 280 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/clouds-wasp-43b
Atmospheric modelling led in part by University of Leicester reveals true extent of clouds on distant world reveals WASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside but mostly clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour
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Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...
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Richard III gave battle in sand
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/richard-iii-gave-battle-in-sand
A time-lapse video showing the creation of a sand sculpture depicting the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 has been captured by the University of Leicester.