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• Press freedom is declining

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/press-freedom-is-declining/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 According to the latest annual report from Reporteurs Sans Frontières which ranks 180 nations worldwide only 24% are rated as having a good level of press freedom, a decline from...

• Streptococcus pneumoniae

  https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/meningitis/streptococcus-pneumoniae

  Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterial cause of meningitis, a community acquired infection.

• 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

• Pneumonia

  https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/host-microbe-interactions/pneumonia

  Pneumonia is disease characterised by inflammation of the lungs, specifically the alveoli. Researchers within LeMID are most interested in the microbiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Spring 2024 newsletter

  https://le.ac.uk/cls/study/patient-carer-group/newsletters/spring-2024

  Dear Members of the Patient and Carer Group, I am sure like me you are longing for the warm Spring days to come soon- it has been a long wet and miserable Winter. I hope that we can all enjoy Spring and Summer when they finally arrive.

• 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.