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Helping organise a regional conference
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/medrace/medrace-voices/kiran-bhavra
Kiran Bhavra reflects on her experiences as part of the MREM 2022 Conference Team
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Vasileios Paschalis
https://le.ac.uk/people/vasileios-paschalis
The academic profile of Dr Vasileios Paschalis, Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Leicester
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Human intelligence just got less mysterious, according to Leicester University’s neuroscientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/human-intelligence
Neuroscience experts from the University of Leicester have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing that the way we store memories is key to making human intelligence superior to that of animals.
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Meningitis
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/meningitis
At the University of Leicester, LeMID researchers are studying meningitis with specific regards for Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
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Reka Plugor
https://le.ac.uk/people/reka-plugor
The academic profile of Dr Réka Plugor, Associate Professor of Work and Employment at University of Leicester
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University of Leicester alumnus amongst ten Windrush pioneers to have portrait commissioned by the King
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/windrush-geoff
Sir Godfrey ‘Geoff’ Palmer OBE is one of ten pioneering members of the Windrush Generation who have had portraits commissioned by King Charles III to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.
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Leicester researcher examines differing factors behind forest fires
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/cop-forest-fires
A study of forest fires in the tropics has led a University of Leicester researcher to highlight the need to monitor ecosystems in more detail to try and prevent their destruction.
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New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/parkinsons-robot
Parkinson’s disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in part of the brain called the substantia nigra. As a result, dopamine – a chemical that helps to regulate movement of the body – drops.
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MOVIN’ ON UP: A Social Mobility Comic
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/movin-on-up-a-social-mobility-comic/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 The research of Anthony Miro Born expressed in the form of a comic to communicate easily complex ideas to a wider audience.
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James Arthur (Jim) Mackley
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/jim-mackley
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr Jim Mackley. Jim joined the Department of Genetics as a technician in 1964, and was then Chief Technician in the Department of Biochemistry from 1981 until his retirement.