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How can you measure happiness?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/20/how-can-you-measure-happiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 20, 2019 The OECD has discussed methodology (in terms of OECD nations) in a number of its reports.
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Unemployment Heart Disease prevention fingerprints and babyfarming among research showcased at Festival of Postgraduate Research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/unemployment-heart-disease-prevention-fingerprints-and-2018baby-farming2019-among-research-showcased-at-university-of-leicester-festival
Research into youth unemployment in the East Midlands and unemployment amongst the elderly and unskilled, how manipulations in genetic ‘switches’ can help prevent heart disease, creating new algorithms for fingerprint identification and a re-evaluation of ‘baby-farming’...
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Call for Peer Reviewers
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/journals/museological-review/call-for-peer-reviewers
Find out about the aims of the University of Leicester Museological Review, an online journal edited by PhD students in Museum Studies.
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Fight against tuberculosis
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/fight-tuberculosis
We are researching ways to tackle TB, the world’s most deadly infection.
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Research Skills Training, Summer Term 2026
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2026/04/09/research-skills-training-summer-term-2026/
Research skills training program at the Univeristy of Leicester for the Summer Term 2026.
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Creating a unit workbook for use on iPads
https://le.ac.uk/medicine/teaching/workbook
Unit workbooks, handbooks and other text-based learning materials for use with iPads are essentially Word documents saved as PDF documents, then shared out to students through the virtual learning environment (VLE), Blackboard.
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Digital support can significantly reduce anxiety among autistic adults, study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/brain-in-hand
A digital innovation that provides autistic adults with 24/7 support and practical tools to manage the challenges of everyday life has been shown to significantly reduce anxiety levels
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Tumour analysis following surgery could provide breakthrough in predicting how well cancer patients respond to drug treatment research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/tumour-analysis-following-surgery-could-provide-breakthrough-in-predicting-how-well-cancer-patients-respond-to-drug-treatment-research-shows
A novel approach developed by researchers from our University and the MRC Toxicology Unit could help to predict how well patients respond to drugs designed to fight various forms of cancer.
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Academic gives insights into part-time study for the Guardian
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/academic-gives-insights-into-part-time-study-for-the-guardian
For those considering taking up part-time study, the co-chair of our flexible and distance learning group spoke to the Guardian recently to give some advice on what qualities you need to succeed as a postgraduate Master’s student.
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Executive education programmes
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/executive-education-programmes
Professional development will reinvigorate your workforce, lead to more creative and effective working and create the right conditions for your business to succeed and grow.