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• 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.

• Study suggests physical activity and functional ability increase after weight loss surgery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/study-suggests-physical-activity-and-functional-ability-increase-after-weight-loss-surgery

  People who have their stomach size surgically reduced move around more and easier after weight loss surgery, a study led by Leicester researchers has found.

• Feminism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/feminism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 The Fawcett Society launch new blog: Feminist Matters It will cover a range of topics from a feminist perspective.

• 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...

• LGBT History Digital Collaboratory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/lgbt-history-digital-collaboratory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 Exciting project based at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA), the Transgender Archives...

• Humanising Space at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/politics/events/humanising-space

  Humanising Space Seminars

• Company, Commercial and Financial Law

  https://le.ac.uk/law/research/research-themes/company-commercial-and-financial-law

  Leicester Law School provides aspects of commercial, corporate and financial law accommodating diverse research interests. Take a look at the information we have to offer.

• Leicester-led study supports potential new infant immunisation programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/immunisation

  Findings from a Leicester-led study into the rates of children coming to A&E with respiratory infections have supported a recommendation to the UK Government to introduce a new immunisation programme against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) for all children under two.

• Human Trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/human-trafficking-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 30th July was  World Day Against Trafficking in Persons . The official UN website provides background on the need for the day and related United Nations publications.

• Election 2015: TV debates

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/election-2015-tv-debates/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 Democratic reflection App The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) project a collaboration between The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)  at The Open University and the University of...