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  • 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.

  • Intimidation, slurs and threats – study uncovers racism in rural England

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/intimidation-slurs-threats-study-racism-rural-england

    A study into racism in rural England has found many minority ethnic individuals and families feel the countryside is an unwelcoming and unsafe place to visit.

  • 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.

  • Humanising Space at Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/politics/events/humanising-space

    Humanising Space Seminars

  • Emoji is the fastest growing language

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Emoji’s are ‘pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode  and the launch of Emoj.li.

  • Election 2015: TV debates

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/election-2015-tv-debates/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 Democratic reflection App The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) project a collaboration between The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)  at The Open University and the University of...

  • Study creates first 3D vision of cancer target

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-creates-first-3d-vision-of-cancer-target

    A team from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology has for the first time published a detailed description of a protein linked to many types of cancer. The lab-based study now provides an opportunity for scientists to develop drugs to target this protein.

  • 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...

  • Discover the stories behind the sparkle in new exhibition inspired by ULAS find

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/jewellery-exhibition-ulas

    The Cossington Necklace, found by archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services, is at the centre of an exhibition from 25 January – 15 June 2025 at Charnwood Museum

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