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Making it in the UK screen sector
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/2018making-it2019-in-the-uk-screen-sector
An upcoming event will explore how the UK film and screen industries including creators, funders and businesses can work towards improving inclusion and diversity.
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Is working overtime bad for you? Some interesting evidence from Higher education.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-working-overtime-bad-for-you-some-interesting-evidence-from-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 This article mentioned in the Times Higher last week had the headline Do some overtime (but not too much) It is based on this article: Fontinha, R., Easton, S., & Van Laar, D.
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University of Leicester professor speaks to Government Select Committee about alternative to antibiotics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/martha-clokie
University of Leicester’s Professor of Microbiology Martha Clokie, spoke to MPs about the potential use of phages to fight bacterial infections.
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Memorial service remembers donors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/memorial-body-donation-leicester
A memorial service for those who bequeathed their bodies to Leicester Medical School has taken place.
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Knowing where to look
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/knowing-where-to-look
Whilst nothing of the friary remains above ground today, its site has never actually been lost, despite one early map of Leicester, the 1610 Speed map, getting its location wrong.
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Dryad Collection – basket weaving
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/08/30/the-dryad-collection-basket-weaving/
Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on August 30, 2022 As I catalogue the Dryad Collection , I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the cultivation of the types of natural...
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Leicester Physicist Competing in Famelab 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/04/24/leicester-physicist-competing-in-famelab-2020/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 24 April 2020 Leicester physicist takes part in the FameLab Northern Heat.
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New research compares diet and exercise in controlling diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-research-compares-diet-and-exercise-in-controlling-diabetes
Exercise is being pitted against diet in a straight contest to find out which results in better diabetes control and the effect on heart function as part of a new study.
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The schoolboy sketches of John Leech
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...
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Project to strengthen reputation with South American mining sector
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/project-to-strengthen-reputation-with-south-american-mining-sector
A geologist from our University has been awarded a ‘Chile Prosperity Fund’ from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, aimed at developing and delivering Continuing Professional Development (CPD) short courses for the Chilean mining industry.