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Leicester geneticists involved in research into the UKs leading cause of food poisoning
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-geneticists-involved-in-research-into-the-uks-leading-cause-of-food-poisoning
Geneticists at the University are involved in new research, led by the University of Liverpool, which reveals that the immune response of farmed chickens does not develop fast enough to fight off Campylobacter during their short lifespan.
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Tackling hate: Striving for social justice
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/difficult-conversations/tackling-hate
Tackling hate: Striving for social justice On Tuesday 9 November 2021, the first in our series of free public talks, Difficult Conversations, took place.
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February Book Group: Decline and Fall
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/02/28/bookgroupdecline/
A summary of the February 2014 Book Group meeting
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Declining local paper sales are a danger to democracy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/local-papers
Action needs to be taken to prevent a crisis for local democracy as a result of the dramatic decline in local press readership, a Leicester academic told BBC listeners this week.
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The Activist Museum Award 2024
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/activist-museum-award
The Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, is delighted to announce the second round of the Activist Museum Award.
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Departments receive recognition for tackling gender inequality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/university-of-leicester-departments-receive-recognition-for-tackling-gender-inequality
Advance HE has announced that three University of Leicester departments are among the most recent institutions and departments to receive an Athena SWAN award, in the charter that recognises commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education.
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Helping hedgehogs project to challenge alarming UK wildlife decline
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/helping-hedgehogs-project-to-challenge-alarming-uk-wildlife-decline
Snuffling hedgehogs visiting gardens throughout the United Kingdom are becoming less common due to declining populations – and an event organised by Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust at the Botanic Garden on Saturday 24 October hopes to challenge this worrying trend.
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Air pollution is not just a human problem – it’s also changing the gut of British bumblebees
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/bees
A research team from the University of Leicester is investigating air pollution’s effect on the gut of British bees.
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Tackling student cheating by reimagining university assessment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/tackling-student-cheating-by-reimagining-university-assessment
In a recent Guardian article, pro Vice-Chancellor for student experience Professor Jon Scott discusses how the increasing availability of academic ghost writing will necessitate a new way for universities to assess their students.
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Air pollution
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/air-pollution
The work of Dr Julie Morrissey and colleagues at the University of Leicester, involves the elucidation of how bacteria adapt to air pollution and metal stress, and how this has impact on bacterial survival in a host and in the environment, and drives antibiotic resistance.