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• People

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

  Our members make up an interdisciplinary team of leading scientists. Here, you can learn more about our institute management board and leadership team.

• 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

• Human Trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/15/human-trafficking/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 15, 2013 A new report from the Centre for Social Justice http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.

• 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.

• Universal Children’s Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/22/universal-childrens-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 Universal Children’s day  20 th November was also universal children’s day.

• 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...

• 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.

• World Press Freedom day is celebrated annually on the 3rd May

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/world-press-freedom-day-is-celebrated-annually-on-the-3rd-may/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 2018 is the 25 th anniversary and the focus is upon the rule of law. Find out more about the events on the UNESCO official website.

• Pride

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/09/pride/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 9, 2018 Pride in London – why it still matters. This week we celebrated Pride in London.

• Arthur Edward Davis (1882-1916)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/11/02/arthur-edward-davis-1882-1916/

  Arthur Edward Davis was educated at Mill Hill School, London. He became a cricketer of distinction and played for Leicestershire. In the great War he joined as a Private the 11th Royal Fusiliers and served in France, where he was killed in 1916.