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Writing yourself into the archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/06/05/writing-yourself-into-the-archives/
Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2020 Seeing other institutions’ reactions to the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged the Archives & Special Collections team to think about what we can do to collect Leicester’s responses to it, both official and...
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International day marks the issues behind avoidable deaths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/avoidable-deaths-network-international-awareness-day
The third instalment of an annual global day of awareness of the issues around avoidable deaths takes place this week.
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Record attendances across Leicestershire Innovation Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/innovation-fest
Leicestershire Innovation Festival attendances hit new highs as fresh records were set at the fifth annual event.
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Exposure to air pollution associated with increase in sedentary time, study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/pollution
Long-term exposure to current levels of UK air pollution has been found to be associated with an annual increase of up to 22 minutes of sedentary time each day, in a study published in the Journal of Public Health.
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Study reveals seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months post-discharge
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/covid-19-patients-not-fully-recovered
The majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 did not fully recover five months after discharge and continued to experience negative impacts on their physical and mental health, as well as ability to work, according to results released by the PHOSP-COVID...
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Visa checkpoint
https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/your-arrival/identity-check-visa-checkpoint/visa-checkpoint
Find out how to successfully complete the visa checkpoint and register with the University of Leicester.
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Could female traders reduce market crashes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/could-female-traders-reduce-market-crashes
Researchers in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester have shown that increasing the proportion of female traders makes the market more volatile, but at the same time can reduce the occurrence of the most extreme crashes.
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Rap music
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/rap-music/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors .
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Participedia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/15/participedia/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2023 Participedia net Participedia is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Hope Not Hate: the State of Hate in 2019
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/22/hope-not-hate-the-state-of-hate-in-2019/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 22, 2019 Annual report from the group which monitors online hate , islamophobia, homophobia and the state of the far right in Britain today.