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Businesses are invited to join the space revolution
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/space-park-business
Space Park Leicester is inviting businesses to join the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC UK) programme.
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Nearly half of COVID-19 survivors experience continuous symptoms, global research finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/long-covid
More than 40 per cent of COVID-19 survivors experience symptoms of the virus four months after first being infected.
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Harnessing the ‘wisdom of crowds’ can help combat antibiotic over prescription
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/wisdom-of-crowds
A new study has demonstrated that using the ‘wisdom of crowds’ (also known as collective intelligence) of three or more medical prescribers, can improve decisions about antibiotic prescribing and help combat rising levels of antibiotic resistance.
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Aerospace Engineering
https://le.ac.uk/engineering/research/aerospace-engineering
Explore the Aerospace and Computational Engineering at the University of Leicester.
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The returns to undergraduate degrees by socio-economic group and ethnicity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/29/the-returns-to-undergraduate-degrees-by-socio-economic-group-and-ethnicity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2021 Published this week by IFS this report considers evidence on the potential benefits of a degree by studying earnings of recent graduates in a range of subject areas.
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Paris attacks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/paris-attacks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 News reports Two useful sites which aggregate reports from other sources 24/7 News Now covers more than 40,000 sources. Country indicated by national flag next to the headline.
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Bias – the uncomfortable truth
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2015/09/15/bias-the-uncomfortable-truth/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on September 15, 2015 Having recently attended the Vitae annual conference for those of us who work in the field of researcher development, I find I am now reflecting on the content.
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Sophie Dumville
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/author/sad34/
Careers: Work experience with the SAPPHIRE research group – Aisha Seedat Posted by Sophie Dumville in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on June 22, 2018 SAPPHIRE recently had the opportunity to have a Health Studies undergraduate student,...
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‘Women still under-represented in UK HE management positions’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/women-still-under-represented-in-uk-he-management-positions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 The latest report from the non profit organisation Women Count indexes the representation of women as governors, Chairs and Vice-Chancellors in each of the 166 HEIs in the UK that...
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Events in Leicester this October 2017 for Black History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/04/events-in-leicester-this-october-2017-for-black-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2017 Phoenix Square marks Black History Month with a series of films programmed by local arts organisation Serendipity, in partnership with the University of Leicester, a one-off...