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Leicester co-founds UK Nuclear Deterrence Network
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-founder-member-uk-nuclear-deterrence-network
The University of Leicester has joined partners to launch a network which will examine and assess nuclear deterrence and inform UK nuclear policy.
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Exploring explosions in space
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/making-waves
Exploring gamma-ray bursts, the enormous, distant explosions in space.
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Leicester to become first UK city to join global initiative against urban diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-to-become-first-uk-city-to-join-global-initiative-against-urban-diabetes
Leicester will join the likes of Copenhagen, Mexico City, Rome and Shanghai in becoming part of the Cities Changing Diabetes programme to tackle the dramatic rise of type 2 diabetes in urban areas.
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Red squirrel and human leprosy link found at English medieval archaeological site
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/squirrel
New evidence from medieval archaeological sites shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) strains also responsible for leprosy in humans.
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Leicester Professor honoured with global award for life-saving disaster risk work
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/nibedita-ray-bennett-disaster-deaths-award
The University of Leicester's Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett has been awarded a prestigious Norio Okada Implementation Science Award for her work on disaster risk management alongside her long-time collaborator, Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita (Kansai University).
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United Nations Hand Book 2019 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/united-nations-hand-book-2019-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 Get useful facts and figures on the working of the UN from this annual publication from the government of New Zealand.
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Digital Literacies with Children
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/digital-literacies-with-children/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 Dr Cristina Costa, from Durham University School of Education, has been working on a digital literacy project with children at a County Durham primary school.
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In-work poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/in-work-poverty/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 Great posting from the European Parliamentary service posted by Verena Kern which links to EU related report with research and data covering all 28 EU nations.
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LGBT+ History month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/31/lgbt-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2019 February is LGBT+ History month. Here is a list of some of the many LGBT-related resources in the library https://rl.talis.
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Explosive Violence Monitor
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/14/explosive-violence-monitor/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2020 Explosive Violence Monitor 2019 Latest annual report by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) – demonstrates that civilians continue to be disproportionately affected by the...