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• What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles

  But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.

• Global study reveals major gaps in diabetes care targets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/diabetes-care-targets-khunti-leicester

  A global study involving academics from the University of Leicester has found that only 12 per cent of individuals with the condition are achieving all three targets simultaneously, despite significant advances in therapies and updated clinical guidelines.

• Study to help prevent the development of diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/study-to-help-prevent-diabetes

  Diabetes experts are carrying out a study to find the best way of screening people with learning disabilities to prevent them from developing diabetes. They are also looking at developing an education programme to help individuals as well as their family and carers.

• Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/covid

  A major new global study has found that higher rates of severe illness and death among ethnic minority groups during the pandemic was largely driven by a greater risk of infection.

• NHS staff retention to be investigated in new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/nhs-retention

  At a time when staffing the NHS effectively has never been more important, a team of researchers is seeking to understand which ethnic groups are at greatest risk of leaving the NHS in 2024, with the aim of improving retention.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/54/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Andrew Dunn: Page 54

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/54/

  Academic Librarian.

• Study shows large gender imbalance in funding given for cancer research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/study-shows-large-gender-imbalance-in-funding-given-for-cancer-research

  Male researchers receive far greater funding for cancer research than their female equivalents, suggests a study involving University of Leicester research and published in the journal BMJ Open.

• Senate regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2018/19 to 2024/25)

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-5/2018-2025-study

  Read Senate Regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2018/19 to 2024/25).

• Andrew Dunn: Page 64

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/64/

  Academic Librarian.