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• Dissertations

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/undergraduate/dissertations

  Browse just a handful of our recent successful undergraduate dissertations, showing the culmination of our students’ efforts while studying with us.

• Adding genetic information to health checks improves identification of people at risk of heart attacks and strokes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/samani

  University of Leicester researchers have discovered a better way of identifying those at high risk of potential heart attacks and strokes and other major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events

• Shedding light on historical stories of displacement and forced migration

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/shedding-light-on-historical-stories-of-displacement-and-forced-migration

  During Leicester’s 2018 Journeys Festival international, where the creative talents of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists are celebrated, the University of Leicester’s DICE unit is hosting an event entitled ‘Reckoning with Refugeedom.

• Addressing Liberty: Hayek, Gibraltar and The Road to Serfdom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/04/addressing-liberty-hayek-gibraltar-and-the-road-to-serfdom/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015 Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott , outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist     Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should...

• New research finds singing at work reduces stress and loneliness

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/15-singing-work-reduces-stress-loneliness

  New research led by Dr Catherine Steele and Joanna Foster from our Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour has revealed that belting out a tune in a choir at work can help to reduce workplace stress and feelings of social isolation.

• 31st January 2015 Sol 885

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/01/31/31st-january-2015-sol-885/

  Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 31, 2015 The second attempt at drilling Mojave has been succesfull by both the minidrill and main drill hole (diameter 1.5 cm, depth ~6 cm).  Now we are analysing the tailings with ChemCam and APXS.

• Sweet genes – not sweet dreams - could explain why a bad night’s sleep makes you older

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/sleep

  New funding support to research teams at University of Leicester to study sleep’s effects on ageing epigenetics Changes to our DNA occur as we get older and could be affected by sleep disturbance Scientists aim to find out whether this epigenetic clock plays a...

• Facilities

  https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/facilities

  The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester occupies a recently-refurbished, modern, purpose-built laboratory space, furnished with up-to-date equipment for the latest molecular genetic methods.

• Sydney Holloway

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/sydney-holloway

  We have recently learned with great sadness of the death of Sydney Holloway, who was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.

• Alumni stars are recognised at glittering awards night in London

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/alumni-stars-awards-night-london

  The University of Leicester recognised its inspiring alumni for their achievements at a special awards evening held in London.