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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/89/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Women are more fairly funded in the social sciences
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/women-are-more-fairly-funded-in-the-social-sciences
Accounting for academic position, women are as successful as men at winning grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and they receive grants that are actually slightly larger than those won by men.
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Transcranial Ultrasound
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/imaging/chiasm/transcranial-ultrasound
A major cause of stroke comes from embolic debris (thrombus, bubbles and pieces of plaque) that travel through the cerebral circulation and become lodged in arteries supplying the brain.
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Our History
https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/our-history
Plans were announced in 1917 for a new college of higher education in Leicester, as a memorial to the sacrifices made by local people during the First World War.
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DELE exams at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/exams/dele-exams
DELE exams
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Theories of Crime and Criminality
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/cr1001
Module code: CR1001 (double module) Are offenders different from non-offenders? Is crime the result of individual biology, psychology or social circumstances? What factors have been identified as ‘high risk’ in terms of predicting future criminal behaviour? In this module...
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Theories of Crime and Criminality
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/cr1001
Module code: CR1001 (double module) Are offenders different from non-offenders? Is crime the result of individual biology, psychology or social circumstances? What factors have been identified as ‘high risk’ in terms of predicting future criminal behaviour? In this module...
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Significant boost for pioneering instrument to study molecules in exquisite detail
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/significant-boost-for-pioneering-instrument-to-study-molecules-in-exquisite-detail
An innovative instrument which can improve our understanding of the structure and behaviour of molecules will receive a significant upgrade thanks to investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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Geophysics
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/solid-earth/geophysics
Find out more about Geophysics at the University of Leicester.
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Big data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/big-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge A useful project to follow from the Oxford Internet Institute. Running 2012-14.