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Project connecting digitally catalogued collections in UK museums receives three years’ funding worth £800,000
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/digitally-catalogued-collections-uk-museums-funding
Joint venture between the University of Leicester, Art UK and Collections Trust supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council aims to ultimately collect data for 100 million object records
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Leicester’s Top 5 COVID research studies
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/top-5-covid-research-studies
One of the top ten Universities in the UK for COVID research has highlighted its top five research projects that have had a global impact.
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World Digital Preservation Day 2022 blog
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/10/19/world-digital-preservation-day-2022/
Blog post describing the work done at the University of Leicester to increase ability and capacity for permanent preservation of born-digital material (websites, Sharepoint sites, email and word and pdf documents).
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From the genetic origins of disease to the complexity of the classroom
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/from-the-genetic-origins-of-disease-to-the-complexity-of-the-classroom
At the final professorial inaugural lectures for this academic year, experts from across the University will be delving into topics ranging from the genetics of the human body to present day human-technology interaction.
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Exceptional & Extraordinary
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/exceptional-and-extraordinary
Exceptional & Extraordinary has commissioned four disabled artists to create four emotionally powerful, impactful, provocative and high-quality artworks.
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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.
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Astronomers find surprising shapes in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere over Great Red Spot
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/jupiter-shapes
Scientists led by the University of Leicester using the James Webb Space Telescope have seen intricate structures in the infrared light from Jupiter's upper atmosphere
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New Medical Schools Council report highlights Leicester’s COVID-19 research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/msc-covid-19
The real-world impact of Leicester research into COVID-19 and its effects has been commended by the Medical Schools Council.
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Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells
A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.
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Archives Collections Management Policy
https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/archives-collections
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland College was established in 1921.