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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...

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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