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• Human Trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/human-trafficking-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 30th July was  World Day Against Trafficking in Persons . The official UN website provides background on the need for the day and related United Nations publications.

• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

  Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

• Engage, learn, achieve

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/engage-learn-achieve

  This research was exploratory in nature and set out to investigate the impact on the attainment of secondary-age pupils.

• East Derbyshire Election, 1868

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/05/07/east-derbyshire-election-1868/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 7, 2015 Our look back at past elections in Special Collections is rounded off today with a gallery of from an impressive volume of East Derbyshire Election Cartoons, 1868 .

• Writing yourself into the archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/06/05/writing-yourself-into-the-archives/

  Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2020 Seeing other institutions’ reactions to the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged the Archives & Special Collections team to think about what we can do to collect Leicester’s responses to it, both official and...

• Pioneering African mental health study receives millions in funding from Wellcome

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/neet

  A Wellcome-funded study led by the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the University of Leicester and others, aims to identify predictors of depression among NEET youth in Africa.

• Leicester welcomes its world-changing Future 50 researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/future-50-research-students

  The next generation of world-changing researchers was given a warm welcome by the University of Leicester this week.

• Epigenetics and global health case study

  https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/epigenetics/case-studies/epigenetics-global-health

  Epigenetics can help us understand global health trends, as epigenome is dynamic and frequently responds to environmental cues. For more information, take a look at our website.

• Mental Health UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/mental-health-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 10 th October was World Mental Health Day and the first Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit has been held.   Its website has reports and decisions.

• Gay Pride

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/gay-pride/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Celebrate gay pride – with the Gay t-shirt archive!  Wearing gay history  digitized t-shirt collections of numerous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender archives across the...