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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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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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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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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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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.
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Taking to new heights to help beat cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/taking-to-new-heights-to-help-beat-cancer
A Leicester man is taking fundraising to new heights – 15,000ft, to be precise. on Saturday 8 August 2015 at Hibaldstow Airfield in Lincolnshire.
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Leicestershire Institute of Technology bid reaches final stages
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/leicestershire-institute-of-technology
Experts in cyber and space technology are bidding to create a £13m ‘skills factory’ in Leicestershire to revitalise the region’s economy.
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Event to explore mental health in the media The Good the Bad and the Ugly
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/event-to-explore-mental-health-in-the-media-2018the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly2019
Mental health issues and their depiction on film and TV will be discussed at a public event at our University on Tuesday 21 November. It will question whether mental health and illness are depicted well on screen and – if not - what can be done about it.