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  • Charles Phythian-Adams

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/charles-phythian-adams

    We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Emeritus Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Head of the Department of English Local History (now the Centre for Regional and Local History), who passed away on 13 May 2025.

  • Study shows slow walking pace is good predictor of heart-related deaths

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/study-shows-slow-walking-pace-good-predictor-of-heart-related-deaths

    A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University - has concluded that middle-aged people who report that they are slow walkers could be at higher risk...

  • Study reveals seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months post-discharge

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/covid-19-patients-not-fully-recovered

    The majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 did not fully recover five months after discharge and continued to experience negative impacts on their physical and mental health, as well as ability to work, according to results released by the PHOSP-COVID...

  • Address misinformation and mistrust to help tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers, study suggests

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/uk-reach-vaccine-hesitancy

    Addressing misinformation and mistrust, inclusive communication, involving healthcare workers in the vaccine rollout, and promoting vaccination through trusted networks could play an important role in helping to tackle vaccine hesitancy amongst healthcare workers from ethnic...

  • Study to help find ways to prevent kidney damage

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/study-to-help-find-ways-to-prevent-kidney-damage

    Leicestershire people set to undergo keyhole vascular surgery are being recruited for a new study to help find ways to prevent kidney damage which can sometimes occur afterwards.

  • Origins of Pepyss famous diary unravelled

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/origins-of-pepys2019s-famous-diary-unravelled

    The diary of the seventeenth-century cultural icon Samuel Pepys - which contains references to bribery, illicit sex, and criticisms of powerful men – has an enduring legacy, and Dr Kate Loveman from the School of English will be unravelling why it was written at an event at...

  • Leicester study to improve crop plants

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

    Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.

  • Senate Regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2025/26 onwards)

    https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-5/2025-26-study

    Read Senate Regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2025/26 onwards).

  • Alex Keller

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/alex-keller

    The University has learned, with regret, of the death of Professor Alex Keller who taught history of science and technology at Leicester 1963-1997.

  • The hunt for the Christmas meteorite

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-hunt-for-the-christmas-meteorite

    An article by the BBC discussing a 4.5bn-year 'Christmas meteorite' - the biggest to hit the UK - which crashed on Christmas Eve, 1965, in the village of Barwell in Leicestershire has quoted Dr Leigh Fletcher from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

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