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Researchers make spectacular discovery of how learning takes place and memories are formed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/researchers-make-spectacular-discovery-of-how-learning-takes-place-and-memories-are-formed
Brain scientists in the UK and US have collaborated to make ‘a spectacular discovery’ - for the first time in human studies - of how memories are formed and new learning takes place.
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Modelling reveals new insight into the electrical conductivity of ionic liquids
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/06-ionic-liquids-relay-race
A collaborative investigation has revealed new insight into how room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) conduct electricity, which may have a great potential impact for the future of energy storage.
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Events
https://le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/events
Find out more about the upcoming and past events organised by the Covid in Cartoons team
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Trial success for less invasive life-saving cardiac procedure
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/tavi
A nationwide study led by Leicester academics has shown that a less invasive procedure to treat a common heart problem is just as effective as open-heart surgery.
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Being Blue: An examination of the lived experience of minority ethnic police officers
https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/research/the-being-blue-project
The Being Blue project is the first in-depth study to include police officers from white minority ethnic backgrounds, and the first to include the lived experience of ethnic minority officers in leadership ranks.
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Dr Gijs Rommelse
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/people/dr-gijs-rommelse
Dr Gijs Rommelse is Head of History at the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum in Hoofddorp (the Netherlands). He specialises in seventeenth and eighteenth century political and military cultures.
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The Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia (ASSN) 1963-1969
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/diverse-heritage/the-archaeological-survey-of-sudanese-nubia-assn-1963-1969
A project page for the University of Leicester's research into the 1963-1969 archaeological survey of Sudanese Nubia
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Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948
https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/jewish-dress-migration-belonging
External partners and collaborators|Dress expresses intimate feelings of belonging and identity. A focus on dress is especially rewarding when looking at migrant societies in which people from diverse backgrounds have often different ideas of how one should dress and why.
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UK-born UK healthcare workers more likely to report multiple long-term health conditions than those born overseas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/health-conditions
UK healthcare workers born in the UK are significantly more likely to report having multiple long-term health conditions than migrant UK healthcare workers, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Leicester
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Counting the cost of Britains most damaging conflict
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/counting-the-cost-of-britain2019s-most-damaging-conflict
A new Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project is supporting a team of academics from Leicester, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton universities who are revealing the human cost of the British Civil Wars.