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• Ethnic minority groups underrepresented in long COVID research, study demonstrates

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/covid-minorities

  Leicester academics have highlighted that ethnic minorities are underrepresented in long COVID research.

• Leicester study to improve crop plants

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

  Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.

• Keep Calm and Scroll On! (Pt.4)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/05/07/keep-calm-and-scroll-on-pt-4/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on May 7, 2020   One thing I’ve observed during the lockdown is how eerily quiet it is in the evenings!   With a reduction in the number of cars on the road, planes in the air, and trains on the tracks many people...

• Leicester-led study to explore mental health and drug use in colonial and post-colonial prisons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leicester-study-mental-health-drug-prisons

  The University of Leicester has been awarded £3.3m to research drugs and mental health in prison settings globally.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/203/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Andrew Dunn: Page 202

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/202/

  Academic Librarian.

• Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/lockdown-effects-on-bame-communities

  New research by University of Leicester academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, may not have been as effective in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities with data showing that cases in these...

• Florence Rich and Granville School for Girls

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/05/22/florence-rich-and-granville-school-for-girls/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 22, 2018 11 Granville Road, Leicester, formerly Granville School for Girls On 14 November 1917 The Leicester Daily Post , edited by W. G.

• Breakthrough genetic study points to neurological mechanisms for chronic cough

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/chronic-cough-genetic-leicester

  A new genetic study by scientists at the University of Leicester has identified neurological mechanisms as key drivers of chronic cough

• Health study with 11,000 participants celebrates 10 year anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/exceed

  A major health study led by the University of Leicester has recruited a staggering 11,000 patients across the city and county since it began 10 years ago.