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New research network to address critical environmental challenges in India
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/new-research-network-to-address-critical-environmental-challenges-in-india
Researchers from our University's Department of Physics and Astronomy have been funded to set up a new international research network with the Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur) to assess the impact of climate on agriculture in the Indo-Gangetic...
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Leicester and JWST
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/projects/james-webb-space-telescope/leicester-and-miri
Leicester scientists and engineers were the mechanical engineering lead for the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope.
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University of Leicester specialist is recognised for a lifetime’s devotion to cancer research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/dean-fennell
A University of Leicester cancer specialist who has devoted his life to researching an aggressive fatal lung disease has been recognised for his work by the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Leicester scholars co-host international workshop to tackle SDGs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/metals-workshop-sdgs
Following a welcome from Professor Philip Baker, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at the University of Leicester, attendees also had the opportunity to network with international colleagues as part of a UK-China bilateral early career forum.
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New Centenary film celebrates Leicester research heroes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/century-change
The University of Leicester has premiered a new short film, celebrating 100 years of changing the world. Research experts from the University’s first Century feature in the film, produced to mark Leicester’s Centenary year.
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University of Leicester is =26th in the world for research quality in latest global ranking
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/26th-research-quality-global-ranking-times-higher-education
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 place Leicester =26th for research quality and positions Leicester 192nd overall out of 2191 institutions
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Racism in British Universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...
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Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/14/comparing-gender-and-media-equality-across-the-globe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2020 GEM, a research project led by the University of Gothenberg, has culminated in an open-access book: Comparing Gender and Media Across the Globe : A cross-national study of the...
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Economists on Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/economists-on-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 The working paper site RePEc has just launched its own directory of economists who tweet.
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Homophobia- the facts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/homophobia-the-facts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 According to ILGA in 2014 there were still 78 nations where same sex sexual acts between adults in private were illegal . This compared to 113 UN nations where they were legal.