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• Medical group celebrates five-year milestone

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/student-medical-group-medrace-fifth-anniversary

  A group set up to prevent and address racial harassment in medicine is celebrating its five-year anniversary

• BBC Radio Leicester – In Perspective

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/08/09/bbc-radio-leicester-in-perspective/

  A blog that looks at the 'In Perspective' series produced by BBC Radio Leicester in the 1970s.

• Creating safe spaces in the entertainment industry

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/22-safe-spaces-entertainment-equity

  Creating safe spaces in entertainmant industry abstract cultural background|University of Leicester essay explores Equity’s Agenda for Change Ahead of this weekend’s Oscars ceremony, the University of Leicester’s Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies (CAMEo),...

• Scoliosis

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/scoliosis

  One compelling aspect of Shakespeare’s Richard III is his deformity. In the play the king is described as ‘hunchbacked’ and there has been considerable disagreement since whether this is real or a politically motivated invention of his enemies.

• The Boy Who Lived Students put the science of Harry Potters universe to the test

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/students-put-the-science-of-harry-potter2019s-universe-to-the-test

  In the world of Harry Potter the young wizard undergoes two magical biological transformations: eating Gillyweed to grow gills in order to breathe underwater and drinking Skele-Gro to repair broken bones.

• Consuming Authenticities: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• New research shows the proportion of adults with autism or psychotic disorders remains stable

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/autism-psychotic-national-survey-leicester-apms

  Results from the latest part of a national survey on mental health reveal the number of adults diagnosed with autism and psychotic disorders in England has not risen since data was first collected in 2007

• Expansion of GovInfo (US government)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/expansion-of-govinfo-us-government/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 For those seeking full-text  US government documents Govinfo has now added more than 1500 Congressional Hearings since 2008.

• Expert opinions cover the British Empire air pollution the CIA and how society sleeps

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/expert-opinions-cover-the-british-empire-air-pollution-the-cia-and-how-society-sleeps

  Dr Stan Neal from the School of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article for The Conversation about how the British Empire facilitated the movement of migrant workers in the 19th century and beyond.

• Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/peatlands-will-store-more-carbon-as-planet-warms-study-suggests

  Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests Photograph of a peat field|Leicester scientist part of international study into effects of global warming on peatlands Global warming will cause peatlands to absorb more carbon – but the effect will weaken as...