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• Global study reveals new hypertension and blood pressure genes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/global-study-reveals-new-hypertension-and-blood-pressure-genes

  Thirty-one new gene regions linked with blood pressure have been identified in one of the largest genetic studies of blood pressure to date, involving over 347,000 people, and jointly led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Cambridge, with...

• 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...

• 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.

• Government issues record grant to University of Leicester to help students study abroad

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/turing-grant-scheme

  University of Leicester has been awarded over £1 million from the UK Government’s Turing Scheme

• My internship with Academic Liaison and Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/06/17/my-internship-with-academic-liaison-and-special-collections/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 17, 2016 By James Wilkinson After one of my friend’s mentioned a potential career path in librarianship, and that she was in the middle of undertaking a librarianship internship here at the University of...

• 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.

• 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.

• Innovation through collaboration

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/projects/collaboration

  Learn more about the Institute for Precision Health's innovation through collaboration projects.

• Global Parents Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/04/global-parents-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2020 The First of June is designated by th e   United Nations as Global Parents day   s o here are some quick research links: Are parents becoming older? Yes in the UK according...

• Development data library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/development-data-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 USAID Library relaunched with enhanced data.   This website  provides information on projects supported from its funding.