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Mick Herron, Bernadine Evaristo, Nina Stibbe and Kit de Waal headline 2023 Literary Leicester festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/literary-leicester
The programme for Literary Leicester, the University of Leicester's annual free literary festival, has been announced today. Literary Leicester will take place between Wednesday 22 March and Saturday 25 March at the university and other venues across the city.
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A new potential treatment pathway for cardiovascular disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/31-trib1-research
A collaborative study involving scientists from the University of Leicester has shown, for the first time, that a protein expressed in a subset of immune cells contributes towards the build-up of fatty deposits in arteries, which leads to cardiovascular disease.
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Event: Open Research Week 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/02/13/event-open-research-week-2024/
A series of online talks promotes the practice of openly sharing and re-using research-related materials, for both education and research. Included are a range of disciplines, research life-cycle stages and experiences.
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UK Archives: Empire Windrush resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/uk-archives-empire-windrush-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 To mark the 75 th anniversary of the ship bringing Caribbean migrants to the UK the UK archives has released a 7-minute film about their ‘Windrush’ resources.
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Sweet genes – not sweet dreams - could explain why a bad night’s sleep makes you older
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/sleep
New funding support to research teams at University of Leicester to study sleep’s effects on ageing epigenetics Changes to our DNA occur as we get older and could be affected by sleep disturbance Scientists aim to find out whether this epigenetic clock plays a...
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Direction of AI Innovation in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/direction-of-ai-innovation-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This report from Institute for Public Policy Research outlines the AI innovation landscape in the UK to determine which type of AI deployment is and is not currently taking place.
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UK slips in gender equality rankings
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/uk-slips-in-gender-equality-rankings/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Released this week by the World Economic Forum. The latest gender gap report which rates nations according to disparity between the sexes in health, education and work.
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Space Debris and Sustainability – National Space Centre Live Q&A
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/03/04/space-debris-and-sustainability-national-space-centre-live-qa/
Space Debris and Sustainability - National Space Centre Live Q&A
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Anti-Semitism growing in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/anti-semitism-growing-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 Shocking data this week that anti-Semitic incidents recorded by the Community Security trust continue to grow. Their 2018 annual report lists 1,652.
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IFS launch UK inequality review
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/15/ifs-launch-uk-inequality-review/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 15, 2019 Announced recently by IFS, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Angus Deaton .