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  • 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...

  • Discovering Peterloo in Special Collections

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/11/23/discovering-peterloo-in-special-collections/

    Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on November 23, 2018   Guest post from Dr William Farrell, Research Services Consultant.

  • 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.

  • International Energy Agency (IEA) databases

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/24/international-energy-agency-iea-databases/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 24, 2019 The UK Data Service provides access to the International Energy Agency (IEA) databases to UK Further and Higher Education institutions.

  • Resources

    https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/resources

    Over the five years the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain project ran, the team participated in and ran a series of events, produced resources and were included as part of a major British Museum exhibition.

  • Leicester research now ranked Top 30 in the UK (Times Higher Education analysis of REF 2021)

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/ref-2021

    The University of Leicester has made one of the biggest climbs of any UK university in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, published on Thursday.

  • Leicester researchers provide expertise to world-leading Alzheimer’s prevention study

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/26-world-leading-alzheimers-study

    Study aims to improve the understanding of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease

  • A story to … awaken thrilling horror

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/31/a-story-to-awaken-thrilling-horror/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on October 31, 2016 University of Leicester Special Collections. Frontispiece to the first illustrated edition of Frankenstein, drawn by Theodor von Holst and engraved by W. Chevalier.

  • Videogames

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/videogames/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Recently a British teenager won almost a million in championships of the computer game Fortnite.

  • Oral history projects in Lincolnshire

    https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/lincolnshire

    Browse projects and oral history materials from Lincolnshire, including the Making History project, which was a film project run with schools in an effort for people to investigate their family histories.

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