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• From council estate to House of Lords – race equality campaigner is honoured by University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/simon-woolley

  A race equality campaigner who rose from humble beginnings on a Leicester council estate to sit in the House of Lords has been honoured by the University of Leicester.

• Continuing inequalities contribute to the wide variation in rates of stillbirths and neonatal deaths across the UK

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/perinatal

  The MBRRACE-UK Collaboration, jointly led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) and the University of Leicester’s The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) research group, has published a ‘State of the Nation’ report on perinatal...

• University of Leicester receives funding to tackle the ‘Missing Element’ in chemistry diversity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/chemistry-diversity-student

  £60,000 grant will create a network for undergraduate chemistry students from minority ethnic backgrounds at the University of Leicester and will support paid summer placements to boost research experience needed for postgraduate study

• Three-fold rise in extremely premature babies given respiratory life support in England and Wales after guidelines change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/premature-babies

  The number of very premature babies (22 weeks) given respiratory life support (survival focused care) and/or admitted to neonatal units in England and Wales has increased 3-fold, following changes in 2019 to national guidance.

• Multiple long-term conditions affect more than 14 per cent of English population, research finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/multiple-conditions

  Imperial College London and University of Leicester researchers have been involved in the largest ever study on multiple long-term conditions which has found that nearly 15 per cent of people in England are currently living with two or more health disorders.

• Spaceport voyage inspires University of Leicester’s ‘galactic scholars’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/virgin-galactic-scholarships

  University of Leicester physics students travel to Spaceport America, the home of Virgin Galactic in New Mexico supported by a Galactic Unite Scholarship, where they met Virgin Galactic staff and gained insights into the world of commercial spaceflight.

• Never mind the mohawks: here’s how punk made what we watch and read

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/punk-film-literature

  University of Leicester’s Dr Emma Parker hosts talks as part of the Punk Festival Weekender from 18-20 August.

• David Watkin

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/david-watkin

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr David Watkin, who was instrumental in the founding of Leicester Medical School. The following obituary, by David's daughter Sally Watkin, originally appeared in the BMJ.

• Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum

  What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...

• Leicester experts discuss Brexit in new programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-experts-discuss-brexit-in-new-programme

  With less than a month to go until the EU Referendum, European Union experts from across the university have been giving their views on whether Britain would be better in or out.