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• £2m study - ethnicity and COVID-19 in healthcare workers

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-uk-reach

  UK-REACH will investigate data held by national healthcare organisations to understand what the risk of having, and dying from, COVID-19 is for ethnic minority healthcare works.

• Get creative this summer with Attenborough Arts Centre’s new programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/aac

  A range of inspiring performances, exhibitions and courses feature in Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre’s new summer programme, which invites you to get creative.

• Inherited herpesvirus study finds links to ancient humans

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/inherited-herpesvirus-study-finds-links-to-ancient-humans

  An international study of integrated HHV-6 led by our University has discovered that a small number of human ancestors, one from about 24,000 years ago, have been responsible for transmitting ancient strains of the virus to individuals today – affecting about a million people...

• Survey ranks Leicester among most cost effective universities at which to study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/survey-ranks-leicester-among-most-cost-effective-universities-to-study-at

  A new survey that compares study-related expenses at universities includes the University of Leicester among the fifteen least expensive universities. The Daily Telegraph has reported on research conducted by the comparison website GoCompare.

• Sole2Soul: Narrate, Curate, Rejuvenate

  https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/projects/sole2soul

  Sole2Soul promotes meaningful intergenerational exchange between “silver champions” (project participants aged over 55) and teenagers about artefacts from the Boot and Shoe exhibit at Harborough Museum.

• Study finds wage and employment freezes impact on morale

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/study-finds-wage-and-employment-freezes-impact-on-morale

  Wage and employment freezes and other actions taken to combat recessions may compromise the positive effect that employee empowerment may have on staff morale and in turn performance.

• Archaeology and Heritage MA, PGDip, PGCert, by distance learning

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/archaeology-and-heritage-ma-dl/2026

  What is the role, value and impact of archaeology in our broader society? How should archaeologists present and communicate the past to the public? How can they design archaeological projects to produce both new knowledge and real impact?

• MIXS: studying Mercury in detail

  https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/mixs

  BepiColombo carries two X-ray spectrometers: MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer) and SIXS (Solar Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer). No-one has sent an imaging X-ray telescope to any planetary body before so this is ground-breaking science.

• Study finds accuracy of sexual assault testimonies is not affected by alcohol intoxication

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/study-finds-accuracy-of-sexual-assault-testimonies-is-not-affected-by-alcohol-intoxication

  People are often concerned about the accuracy of testimony given by victims who were intoxicated during a sexual assault – but a new study by Leicester researchers has found that while alcohol intoxicated participants report fewer pieces of information about an assault,...

• Leicester leads study pointing to postcode lottery in aneurysm care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-leads-study-pointing-to-postcode-lottery-in-aneurysm-care

  A postcode lottery in access to treatment means people suffering from thoracic aortic diseases are up to four times more likely to receive treatment in some parts of the UK compared to others, according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and led by...