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Do homes near top performing schools cost more?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/do-homes-near-top-performing-schools-cost-more/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Yes according to a report released by the Department of Education this week which makes interesting reading.
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Chesterfield, Derbyshire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/derbyshire/chesterfield
Listen to speakers from Chesterfield, Derbyshire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.
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Call to avoid type 2 diabetes made during national campaign to prevent condition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/call-to-avoid-type-2-made-during-national-campaign-to-prevent-condition
A Leicester man with type 2 diabetes is urging people to do all they can to prevent being diagnosed with the condition which could potentially have “ruined his life”. Patrick Quinn was diagnosed with the condition that is usually associated with poor lifestyle in 2014.
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Ko-Fan Chen
https://le.ac.uk/people/ko-fan-chen
The academic profile of Dr Ko-Fan Chen, Lecturer in Neurogenetics at University of Leicester
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Landmark genetic study sheds new light on how the eye develops its sharpest vision
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/eye-genetic-study-foveal-leicester
Combining artificial intelligence and genetics has allowed researchers in Leicester to study the part of the eye that gives us sharp central vision in amazing detail for the first time
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Does going to college pay?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/does-going-to-college-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Update from IFS on the impact of college graduation on earnings in the UK.
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Language education researcher to give Oxford Department of Education Public Seminar
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/language-education-researcher-to-give-oxford-department-of-education-public-seminar
Dr Jim King from the School of Education will be giving a talk about his research into language learner silence at the Oxford University Department of Education Public Seminar at Norham Gardens, Oxford from 16.30 to 18.00 on Monday 15 February.
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After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs3771
Module code: HS3771 In the years after 1945, Germans faced the task of rebuilding their society, and crafting a political model repudiating the recent Nazi dictatorship, in a context of defeat, disgrace and hardship.
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After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3771
Module code: HS3771 In the years after 1945, Germans faced the task of rebuilding their society, and crafting a political model repudiating the recent Nazi dictatorship, in a context of defeat, disgrace and hardship.
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Chickens to be marker of Anthropocene
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/12-chickens-to-mark-anthropocene
Chickens to be marker of Anthropocene Chicken|Consumption of chickens signals new geological epoch according to research led by the University of Leicester Modern meat chickens are a defining feature of the Anthropocene according to new research by Dr Carys Bennett and...