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Student perspective of racial inclusion in medical school exams: an SSC project
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/medrace/medrace-voices/sethara-alwis-ssc
Student blog describing a research project to understand experiences of student assessment and improve racial inclusion within patient simulators
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Children with multiple long-term conditions hospitalised with COVID are almost three times more likely to die, new study shows.
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/covid-children
Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection than others.
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£8.2M award from ESPRC to transform how technology critical materials are recycled and reused
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/recreate
Professor Andy Abbott of the University of Leicester is part of the team for RECREATE, which aims to develop a circular economy for technology-critical materials
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University of Leicester retains award for commitment to advancing gender equity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/athena-swan
The University of Leicester has been recognised for commitment to advancing gender equity across higher education and research with the successful renewal of an institutional Athena Swan Silver award.
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Generous donation to enhance pioneering kidney research at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/kidney-research
Pioneering research by the University of Leicester into chronic kidney disease has received another major boost thanks to a £1 million donation
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Obesity ‘accelerates’ COVID-19 mortality risk amongst ethnic minorities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/covid-19-obesity
A stronger association exists between deaths from COVID-19 and obesity in people of Black, South Asian and other ethnic minority groups than in White people, latest research published in the journal Nature Communications demonstrates.
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Major investment in doctoral students to support next generation of researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/doctoral-funding
University of Leicester is a partner in two programmes to benefit from £500 million investment in postgraduate training nationally
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Leicester to showcase humanities research at 2021 Being Human festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/being-human
University of Leicester experts from disciplines as diverse as English literature, archaeology and criminology – and a whole lot more – have joined the programme for the UK’s largest national festival of the humanities.
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Leicester experts feed £3.6 million sustainable agriculture training programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/sustainable-agriculture-training
Researchers at the University of Leicester will lend their expertise to a new £3.6 million postgraduate training programme in sustainable agricultural innovation.
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Research shows higher rates of stillbirth and neonatal death for those living in deprived areas, minority ethnic groups and twin pregnancies
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/stillbirth
People living in the UK’s most deprived areas, minority ethnic groups and those with twin pregnancies all continue to experience higher rates of stillbirth and neonatal death according to new research from the MBRRACE-UK team at the University of Leicester.