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• Genetics study to improve prediction of heart disease recruits 20000th participant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/genetics-study-to-improve-prediction-of-heart-disease-recruits-20-000th-participant

  A team of researchers from our University and NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit (LCBRU) in conjunction with colleagues from Primary Care and Leicester and Leicestershire CCGs have recruited their 20,000th participant to a landmark genetics study.

• An interview with Nora Waddington

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/19/an-interview-with-nora-waddington/

  Posted by rwatson in Library Special Collections on December 19, 2016 During the 1980s an oral history project was undertaken by the Leicester Oral history Archive.  These interviews are now held by the East Midlands Oral History Archives at the University of Leicester.

• Leicester Pro-Vice-Chancellor discusses studying at several universities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-pro-vice-chancellor-discusses-studying-at-several-universities

  In the recent Higher Education and Research Bill, the Government proposes that students should get transferable credits for modules and feel free to move between higher education providers.

• Archive for November 2024: Page 2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/page/2/

  You are browsing the site archives by date.

• Research

  https://le.ac.uk/english/research

  English at Leicester is an internationally-recognised centre of research excellence across a comprehensive range of scholarly activities and chronological periods.

• Recruitment begins for ethnic minority healthcare staff COVID research study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/recruitment-begins-for-ethnic-minority-healthcare-staff

  A drive to encourage ethnic minority healthcare workers to participate in a Government-backed study investigating the risks of COVID-19 to their health has been launched today.

• Major new hate crime study to shape improved support services for victims

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/major-new-hate-crime-study-to-shape-improved-support-services-for-victims

  A major new study to investigate hate crime in the West Midlands and to shape the development of improved support services for victims is being led by our University.

• Sheep urine study examines impact of greenhouse gas

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/sheep-urine-study-examines-impact-of-greenhouse-gas

  Dr Mick Whelan and Professor Heiko Balzter from our Department of Geography have just started a three-year NERC-funded project to explore the interaction between livestock (sheep) grazing behaviour, urine composition and subsequent nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from urine...

• A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.

• Cabinet of Curiosities: how disability was kept in a box

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/cabinet-of-curiosities

  A unique performance that challenges the way we think about disability.