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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.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/106/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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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.
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Attenborough Arts Centre announces new Advisory Board members
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/attenborough-arts
Attenborough Arts Centre today announces the appointment of six new Advisory Board members, following a public recruitment process.
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University scientists involved in major international plant reproduction study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/university-scientists-involved-in-major-international-plant-reproduction-study
Leicester is part of a major new study on the evolution of sexual reproduction in plants which has received 2.6 million euros in funding.
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Study provides insight into zincs important role in heartbeat regulation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/study-provides-insight-into-zincs-important-role-in-heartbeat-regulation
Leicester researchers have been involved in a study with University of St Andrews examining the role zinc plays in regulating heartbeat.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.