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• Leicester sports sociologist examines the making of British football

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/john-williams-book

  The history of British football and its people is the subject of a book from University of Leicester sports sociologist, John Williams.

• Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/anthropocene-berlin

  Leicester researchers searching for a ‘golden spike’ to formally define humanity’s current geological period – and acknowledge human impact on our planet – have announced a major step in their analysis at an international conference today (Wednesday).

• Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-cathedral-ulas

  Preliminary investigations took place in late 2021, with the ULAS team carefully uncovering more than 120 burials in the top-most layers on the site. The area was once used as the churchyard for burials of people from all walks of life living in the surrounding parish.

• New study shows the heart health benefits of more intense physical activity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/heart-study

  Study shows there is a greater reduction in cardiovascular disease risk when more of that activity is of at least moderate intensity.

• Leicestershire's Chief Constable speaks about his time at the University and what policing means to him

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/rob-nixon

  Leicestershire’s Chief Constable Rob Nixon, has spoken of the importance of his journey through Higher Education

• Awardwinning academic rep explains why shes not quite ready to leave Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/award-winning-academic-rep-explains-why-she2019s-not-quite-ready-to-leave-leicester

  Dedicated student Aysha Ahmed may be closing the chapter on one part of her student journey at the University of Leicester this week, but she isn’t quite ready to leave us yet.

• Spotlight on SLAIDER -- Self-learning AI-based digital twins for accelerating clinical care in respiratory emergency admissions

  https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/life-health-sciences/slaider

  SLAIDER is a £620k project running from 2023 to 2025 and funded by the EPSRC. To provide more context on the project, the team was asked several questions about SLAIDER and how it could impact real-life clinical care.

• Forthcoming events

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/opportunities/events

  Future and past events hosted by the Institute for Precision Health.

• University of Leicester researcher is finalist for prestigious heritage award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/10-researcher-is-finalist-for-prestigious-heritage-award

  PhD researcher from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History Mark Webb shortlisted for 2018 Historic England Angel Award

• Genetic tool to predict adult heart attack risk in childhood

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/08-genetic-tool-to-predict-adult-heart-attack-risk-in-childhood

  Powerful technology that paves way for early interventions to prevent heart attacks developed by international team involving Leicester researchers