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• Walking pace found to strongly predict risk of death

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/walking-pace-mortality-risk-leicester

  A new analysis of more than 400,000 UK adults by University of Leicester experts has found that easy to collect measures of physical health, particularly how fast someone walks, can significantly improve predictions of mortality risk.

• Pathways to Medicine

  https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/post-16/progression-programmes/pathways-to-medicine

  Have you just started Year 12? Are you thinking about studying medicine at university? Do you live within a one-hour commute tof the University of Leicester by public transport? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then the Pathways to Medicine...

• Succeed at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/study/succeed

  FInd out more about your course, the practical elements of studying and living at university, and how you can Succeed at Leicester.

• Leicester – A Champions League City

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/05/13/leicester-a-champions-league-city/

  Posted by Martin Quinn in School of Business Blog on May 13, 2016   Martin Quinn discusses the urban policies and strategies which have made the city of Leicester so successful in recent years.

• The Marketplace of Life? The Political-Economy of Emergent Water Markets

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/12/04/the-marketplace-of-life-the-political-economy-of-emergent-water-markets-2/

  Posted by Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on December 4, 2013   The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives (American Indian Saying)   In 1776 Adam Smith introduced the paradox of value: diamonds are much more expensive than water, even...

• 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.

• 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.