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• Macron’s labour reforms are a major test for France’s trade unions

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/11/14/macrons-labour-reforms-are-a-major-test-for-frances-trade-unions/

  Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on November 14, 2017   Heather Connolly, Associate Professor of Employment Relations at ULSB ( hmc33@le.ac.uk ), on why President Macron’s labour reforms are a major test for France’s trade unions.

• Summer Undergraduate Research Experience 2022

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/08/31/summer-undergraduate-research-experience-2022/

  Interns from the School of Physics and Astronomy present their discoveries and insights from the SURE (summer undergraduate research experience) programme for 2022.

• The Story of Pulque Part 2: A Tangle of Origins – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/18/the-story-of-pulque-part-2-a-tangle-of-origins/

  Overview of different pre-Columbian narratives about the origins or discovery of pulque, and the various political, historical, and cultural roles these narratives served particularly for the Mexica (Aztecs)

• Cooking Inauthentically Part 2: An Experiment with Acarajé – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/05/04/cooking-inauthentically-part-2-an-experiment-with-acaraje/

  Deborah Toner, the Project's PI, describes her first experience of making acarajé, the perils of taking shortcuts and the value of traditional recipes

• Geneticist in major project to breed new varieties of wheat

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/geneticist-in-major-project-to-breed-new-varieties-of-wheat

  Our University has been included in one of three high-value, long-term research projects totalling £13.9M that have been awarded funding by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

• Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century

  Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.

• Leicester staff celebrate victory for the blues

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-staff-celebrate-victory-for-the-blues

  Not content with showing their true-blue colours in advance of Leicester City Football club’s arguably season-clinching game on Sunday, our staff are celebrating the local football heroes’ confirmed Premier League victory on Monday in a variety of ways.

• Academics celebrate Leicesters Premier League victory

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-academics-celebrate-leicesters-premier-league-victory

  Academics from across the University have been celebrating Leicester City Football Club's sensational victory in the Premier League - the first time in history and making Leicester one of only six teams to win the Premier League.

• Student research helps to settle who the victor of a superhero showdown would likely be

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/student-research-helps-to-settle-who-the-victor-of-a-superhero-showdown-would-likely-be

  Natural Sciences and Physics and Astronomy students have been using simple calculations to explain the feasibility of the powers behind of some of the most prominent comic book superheroes known around the world.

• Leicester researchers develop novel heart pump to help people with heart failure

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-novel-new-pump-to-help-people-with-heart-failure

  SZ92jwoXe1k|Dr David Adlam, Associate Professor and Interventional Cardiologist in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Piyal Samara-Ratna, Mechanical Engineer in the Space Research Centre, have joined forces to combine medical and space research to develop a pump...