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Leicester leads report into stillbirth and neonatal death rates in the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-leads-report-into-stillbirth-and-neonatal-death-rates-in-the-uk
A research team led from the University of Leicester has identified large differences across the UK in the numbers and rates of babies who die, even after taking account of known factors that influence the rate of death such as poverty, mother’s age and ethnicity.
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Videos from the day
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/royal/visits/duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge/videos-from-the-day
See videos from when Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the University of Leicester.
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The largest prison in the world
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/19/reflections-on-the-worlds-largest-prison/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2014 Several days ago, I broke from reading through the notes of nineteenth-century Russian penal inspectors to admire the 23rd edition of the International Prison News Digest , a publication of the Institute...
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American Studies student to take the long way home for charity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/american-studies-student-to-take-the-long-way-home-for-charity
A student will join one of his oldest friends on a daunting 60-mile-a-day cycling trip from Austria to England in a mere 24 days.
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Sylwia Bujkiewicz
https://le.ac.uk/people/sylwia-bujkiewicz
The academic profile of Professor Sylwia Bujkiewicz, Professor of Biostatistics at University of Leicester
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‘One of the most remarkable men in the entire history of archaeology’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/08/01/one-of-the-most-remarkable-men-in-the-entire-history-of-archaeology/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on August 1, 2017 Two hundred years ago, on 1 August 1817, the adventurer-Egyptologist Giovanni Belzoni, described by Howard Carter, with good reason, as ‘one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of...
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Sources of data on human rights in the Middle East/ Arab world
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/sources-of-data-on-human-rights-in-the-middle-east-arab-world/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Arab Barometer – Established in 2005 by scholars in the Arab world and the United States. Data on political attitudes of Arab citizens.
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Politics of the International Drug Trade
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl3142
Module code: PL3142 The illegal drug trade has been estimated to take up almost 1% of all trade on Earth.
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Politics of the International Drug Trade
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/pl3142
Module code: PL3142 The illegal drug trade has been estimated to take up almost 1% of all trade on Earth.
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Politics of the International Drug Trade
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl3142
Module code: PL3142 The illegal drug trade has been estimated to take up almost 1% of all trade on Earth.