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• Learning through Culture

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/learning-through-culture

  This programme was established to encourage museums and galleries to develop their educational role.

• €1.5 million award to study birth of planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/erc-starter-grant

  Leicester astrophysics research which seeks to answer fundamental questions about the formation of planets has been awarded a major funding boost by the European Research Council (ERC).

• Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/12/02/monitoring-poverty-and-social-exclusion-2011/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 2, 2011 http://www.jrf.org.

• Podcast celebrates 10 years of major local health study with global impact

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/exceed-podcast

  Researchers behind a major health study involving 11,000 patients across the city and county have highlighted the benefits it has brought over the past 10 years

• COVID-19: study into long-term health impacts launched

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/covid-19-study-long-term-health-impacts

  A major UK research study into the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients has been launched.

• Prague Spring – 50 years on

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/24/prague-spring-50-years-on/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 24, 2018 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union.

• 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.

• 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...

• New archive shares insight to Attenborough refugees’ life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/attenborough-helga-bejach-orphan-college-house

  An archive of previously unpublished photographs, documents and letters from the family of Helga Bejach has been loaned to the University of Leicester.

• ‘Bizarre and unintelligible’ or ‘unique and splendid’?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/01/11/bizarre-and-unintelligible-or-unique-and-splendid/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on January 11, 2016 ‘The Palace, Brighton’ from: SCM 08510, J.D.