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Jennifer Francis announced as Vice-Chair of Attenborough Arts Centre Advisory Board
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/jennifer-francis
Acclaimed museums brand and marketing strategist, Jennifer Francis has been appointed as Vice-Chair of Attenborough Arts Centre's Advisory Board.
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More people at risk of diabetes could be detected thanks to innovative new partnership
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/diabetes-risk
A tool developed by Leicester Diabetes Centre to identify those at risk of diabetes is set to be used in workplaces and communities to ensure more people receive help earlier.
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Work Opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/study/undergraduate/work-opportunities
Page describing opportunities for undergraduate chemists to gain paid research experience during their degree studies.
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New robot to detect Parkinson’s disease could be used on humans in the next 5 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/parkinsons-robot
Parkinson’s disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in part of the brain called the substantia nigra. As a result, dopamine – a chemical that helps to regulate movement of the body – drops.
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Pioneering a New Method for Investigating the Neural Correlates of Ageing Effects during Natural Reading
https://le.ac.uk/ageing-and-reading
Find out more about the Pioneering a New Method for Investigating the Neural Correlates of Ageing Effects during Natural Reading at the University of Leicester.
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Expert in infectious diseases to call for research improvements during epidemics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/expert-in-infectious-diseases-to-call-for-research-improvements-during-epidemics
The research response to epidemics has been slow and our attitude to carrying out research in the midst of infectious disease outbreaks needs to change, an expert in infectious diseases will argue at a lecture on 18 November.
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Film screening and QA with Leverhulme Artist in Residence for International Womens Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/film-screening-and-q-a-with-leverhulme-artist-in-residence-for-international-womens-day
As part of International Women’s Day at our University, Kajal Nisha Patel, Leverhulme Artist in Residence (2016), will be in conversation with Dr Melanie Kennedy from the University’s School of Media, Communication and Sociology.
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Our approach
https://le.ac.uk/research/gcrf/approach
Research England At the University of Leicester, they have clearly placed developing countries as the prime beneficiaries of their activities, have clear priorities in the case of funding increases or decreases, and have developed a theory of change to evaluate impact.
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The origin of humans a tale of tangled roots
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/the-origin-of-humans-a-tale-of-tangled-roots
Dr Daniel Zadik from the Department of Genetics has written an article for his blog examining evidence regarding where humans originated.
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Are children in the UK exposed to online pornography?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/are-children-in-the-uk-exposed-to-online-pornography/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 And if so, what impact does it have on their lives and relationships? The NSPCC and the Children’s Commissioner asked Middlesex University to conduct a study.