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• Telling the story of Leicestershire’s first university

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/17-gordon-campbell-lecture

  Professor Gordon Campbell is delivering a lecture on the history of the University of Leicester.

• New study provides insights into complexities of gender at work

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-suggests-male-workers-in-typically-female-jobs-are-not-motivated-by-money

  Men in typically female-dominated occupations tend to value the social aspects of their career over financial rewards, the findings of a study by Dr Catherine Steele from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour and a team at the University of...

• The Business world and retail

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/business

  Learn more about the collections about business and retail in the East Midlands Oral History Archive.

• Study reveals how thirsty trees pull water to their canopies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-reveals-how-thirsty-trees-pull-water-to-their-canopies

  A scientific mystery about how trees pull water from the ground to their top branches has been solved by an international team of researchers led by Dr Adrian Boatwright, who conducted the research while at the Department of Chemistry.

• Leicester Criminologist presents evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/leicester-criminologist-presents-evidence-to-the-all-party-parliamentary-group-on-british-muslims

  Neil Chakraborti, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Leicester Centre for Hate Studies, has been asked to provide expert evidence to an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims.

• Study into asthma provides a paradigm shift in understanding of lifethreatening condition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/study-into-asthma-provides-a-paradigm-shift-in-understanding-of-life-threatening-condition

  A new study led by our University to understand how to improve the health of severe asthma patients has made a breakthrough finding, with the discovery being described as a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding the life-threatening condition.

• Space Park Leicester developing technology for ultra-clean mini-lab to potentially contain extra-terrestrial samples returned to Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-technology-ultra-clean-mini-lab-extra-terrestrial-samples

  University of Leicester’s science and innovation park to lead on a European Space Agency project to build a Double-Walled Isolator (DWI) to support analysis of extra-terrestrial samples, to reduce the risk of cross contamination on Earth

• Student awards and prizes

  https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/student-awards

  The University of Leicester Geology students have been very successful in winning prizes and awards for their scientific work. Our students travel worldwide to conferences and field areas, and are in the vanguard of many research areas. Read here about some recent successes.

• Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study

  A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges

• 40-year study finds mysterious patterns in temperatures at Jupiter

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/patterns-temperature-jupiter

  An international team of scientists, including at the University of Leicester, have completed the longest-ever study tracking temperatures in Jupiter’s upper troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere where the giant planet’s weather occurs and where its signature colourful...