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Paediatric Cardiologist from our University part of team that helped to deliver miracle baby with heart growing outside of her body
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/paediatric-cardiologist-from-our-university-part-of-team-that-helped-to-deliver-2018miracle-baby2019-with-heart-growing-outside-of-her-body
Academic Champion in Paediatric Cardiology Dr Frances Bu’Lock, from our University’s College of Life Sciences, has worked as part of a team of around 50 clinical staff at Glenfield Hospital to bring Vanellope Hope, a baby with an incredibly rare condition which had her heart...
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Love Island, body image and mental health
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/love-island-body-image-and-mental-health/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Reality TV ? Does it harm mental health With the recent death of Love Island reality TV presenter Caroline Flack we have been reminded that a number of contestants on the show have...
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Graduate named Young Poet Laureate for London
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/graduate-named-young-poet-laureate-for-london
Poet Selina Nwulu, who graduated from the University with a degree in French and Italian from the School of Modern Languages, has been named Young Poet Laureate for London. An article in The Guardian outlines how Selina started to write poetry and her plans ahead.
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Psychologists create first-ever body-maps of hallucinations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/psychosis-hallucinations
Psychosis is a term which describes experiences where an individual may have difficulties in determining what is real and what is not real. Research indicates psychosis is associated with experiencing trauma, adverse life events, and stress.
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Economic inequality is not “bad for everyone”, new research shows – wealthier people derive happiness benefits
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/economic-inequality-wealth-people-happiness
Increases in economic inequality raise the life satisfaction of wealthier people, while lowering the life satisfaction of people who earn less, newly published research shows.
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A Historical Long View of Posthumous Harm: Comparing organ snatching to body-snatching. By Floris To
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/16/organ-and-body-snatching/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 16, 2016 Improper Procurement and Retention Taking organs of dead children without parental permission at Alder Hey is a practice The Economist (2001) dubbed the ‘return of the body-snatchers’.
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Pet Shop Boys visit the Orton collection
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-pet-shop-boys
Photo: Phil Fisk|Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, aka Pet Shop Boys, recently visited the Orton Collection at the University of Leicester during a trip to the city to attend a rehearsal of Hanif Kureishi’s play My Beautiful Laundrette at Curve, for which they wrote new music.
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Older dissertations
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/study/postgraduate/dissertations-and-theses/older-dissertations
2010 BOWEN, J. A landscape of improvement: the impact of James Loch, chief agent to the Marquis of Stafford on the Lilleshall estate, Shropshire, 1720-1820. DAVIDSON, E. The evolution and secularisation of the funeral in Leicester and Leicestershire, 1830-2010.
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4th June 210 Sol 651
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2014/06/04/4th-june-210-sol-651/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on June 4, 2014 A new role for me as I join the HiRISE camera team for an operations/image selection role for the first time.
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Olympics poet honoured with award from the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/lemn-sissay
The official poet for the London 2012 Olympic Games has been recognised with an honorary degree from the University of Leicester.