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Dr Claire Smith
https://le.ac.uk/respiratory-sciences/alumni/claire-smith
Find out more about Dr Claire Smith, alumna of the University of Leicester Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation. She is Lecturer in Child Health at University College London.
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Food available across University in the name of equality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/food-available-across-university-in-the-name-of-equality
The University's Residential and Commercial Services (RACS) is supporting International Women’s Day (IWD), which took place on 8 March, and is raising awareness of the campaign by offering a number of dishes which contain women’s names.
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Unruly bodies and minds in the medical museum
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/unruly-bodies-and-minds-in-the-medical-museum
Our Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) in the School of Museum Studies is leading on Exceptional and Extraordinary, a collaborative project with experts in medical history, disability and museums including Tony Heaton, SHAPE and Katherine Ott, National...
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University showcases new approach to fight wildlife crime through portable DNA analysis tool
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/university-showcases-new-approach-to-fight-wildlife-crime-through-portable-dna-analysis-tool
Leicester researchers will be presenting to government officials on Thursday 2 June on a prize-winning innovation to tackle wildlife crime using a novel DNA sequencer at an event in Washington D.C. The U.S.
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Helping to scaffold students’ reading practices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/09/18/helping-to-scaffold-students-reading-practices/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 18, 2019 This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production.
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Cybersecurity UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/cybersecurity-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Recently the UK government revealed research on the most hacked passwords. You can download the top 100,000 from the National Cyber research centre.
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Leicester academic to lead UN session on transport of the future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/sarah-jane-fox
University of Leicester’s Dr Sarah Jane Fox will lead a session on sustainable transport at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland this month. The session is part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which is taking place from 27 May until 31 May.
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Criticality, objectivity and values-neutrality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/11/21/criticality-objectivity-and-values-neutrality/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 21, 2017 ‘While it is advisable to interrogate our research to see if we’re not engaging in wishful thinking and to make sure it is capable of acknowledging possible...
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Fake news spreads faster than true
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/fake-news-spreads-faster-than-true/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the spread of 126,000 stories on Twitter against a database of stories fact-checked by six...
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Women’s Grassroots Activism Podcast Series
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/womens-grassroots-activism-podcast-series/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 An academic series funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating...