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• New research shows link between BMI and depression

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/bmi-depression

  New research by academics at the University of Leicester has found that your risk of depression increases with a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) – which is bad news for those who have put on the dreaded ‘corona-stone’ during lockdown.

• University breakthrough applied by Leicesters Hospitals to provide pioneering noninvasive autopsy service

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/university-breakthrough-used-by-leicesters-hospitals-to-provide-pioneering-non-invasive-autopsy-service

  Earlier this year, findings from our University represented a breakthrough in how autopsy practice could be conducted in the UK and worldwide.

• Project to investigate genetic roots of resistance to anti-cancer therapy agents

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/project-to-investigate-genetic-roots-of-resistance-to-anti-cancer-therapy-agents

  The mechanisms that cause cancers to respond poorly to therapy are to be investigated in a project that commemorates and honours the work of an eminent Leicester geneticist.

• Leicester announces international campus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-announces-international-campus

  The University of Leicester’s foreign campus in China is set to open in September and will offer dual degrees for UK students spending one year in China as well as for Chinese students studying in Dalian.

• Psychology students complete placement in Sri Lanka

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-students-complete-mental-health-placement-in-sri-lanka

  Over the summer, two Leicester students travelled to Sri Lanka to undertake a voluntary Mental Health Placement with SLV, a graduate-led volunteering organisation, which runs psychology-focused placements in Sri Lanka and also in Bali, Indonesia.

• Research shows female fish judge males on DIY skills

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-shows-female-fish-judge-males-on-diy-skills

  Female fish judge males based on their ability to design nests best suited for the conditions of their environment, according to a new study by researchers from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour.

• Borrowing

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  See the length of time members can borrow items for, as well as how to return or request a book. requesting articles, chapters, books and journals not available in our collection from other libraries. Loaning or providing items from our collection to other libraries

• Information for Employers

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  Degree apprenticeships help organisations offer cost-effective ways to develop the workforce, develop and attract talent into the organisation for sustainable growth.

• Leicester geologist to present rock-licking trick for Hallowe’en treat at Royal Institution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/geologist-rock-licking-halloween-royal-institution

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz joins panel at the Royal Institution on 31 October with other winners of Ig Nobel Prizes to explain their winning work for a public audience

• Out of this world art needed for iconic space hub’s new mission patch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/mission-patch

  Space Park Leicester invites inviting children, young people or adults with a love of space to help design their new mission patch.