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• Changing face of journalism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/changing-face-of-journalism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 The Independent newspaper will be ceasing printed publication. A useful article on the conversation blog by a journalist involved in its early years sets the demise in context.

• 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

• Publications

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/publications

  The RCMG makes its research available to the widest possible audience.

• 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.

• 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...

• A celebration of 100 years ago today, by Caroline Wessel

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/04/a-celebration-of-100-years-ago-today-by-caroline-wessel/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 4, 2019 Newspaper cuttings reporting Fielding Johnson’s Gift, from Astley Clarke’s scrapbook (ULA/D2/1) On Friday 4 April 1919 Mr Thomas Fielding Johnson purchased the 36-acre site of Leicester’s 5th Northern Base...

• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

  Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

• 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...