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Leicester researchers develop lifesaving kits for women in Asia at risk from post-abortion complications
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/leicester-lifesaving-abortion-kits-women-asia
University of Leicester researchers are behind a drive to provide lifesaving kits for women in India and Bangladesh who are at risk from complications following unsafe abortions during disasters.
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WTO Research Database on Trade and Gender
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/16/wto-research-database-on-trade-and-gender/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2022 New WTO Research Database on Trade and Gender, contains information on over 100 research papers produced by WTO members and published by WTO publications or academic journals.
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Using the advanced modes
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/catalogue/using-advanced-searches
Use our guide to get the most out of using advanced searching modes when using the East Midlands Oral History Archive.
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Improving mental health services for vulnerable refugee children
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/improving-mental-health-services-for-vulnerable-refugee-children
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) is staging a Refugee Children and Mental Health Masterclass on Thursday 17 May, delivered by Professor Panos Vostanis from our School of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour.
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What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles
But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.
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Sounds Familiar – a busy winter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/05/04/sounds-familiar/
What the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project has been doing during the winter of 2021
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Toys on the Table appeal breaks records
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-toys-on-the-table
Christmas is here! It’s the season of giving and our generous staff and students have donated a record number of toys to the 2019 Toys on the Table appeal. Over 800 gifts have been collected so far this year - double the donations of 2018.
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New project to collect evidence of modern slavery among adult websites
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/modern-slavery-adult-websites
Adult service websites and their users have a key role to play in preventing modern slavery, according to a leading criminologist from the University of Leicester.
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Leicester experts work with aspiring scientists from Girlguiding Leicestershire to bring science to life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-experts-work-with-aspiring-scientists-from-girlguiding-leicestershire-to-bring-science-to-life
When the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at our University celebrated International Women’s Day, they didn’t know they would end up helping local girls to find out what a baby ladybird looks like up close.
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Dating the Social Death of the Eighteenth Century Criminal. By Rachel Bennett
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/06/23/dating-the-social-death-of-the-eighteenth-century-criminal-by-rachel-bennett/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on June 23, 2015 In April 2015 I presented a paper at a conference held at the University of Leicester entitled ‘When is Death?’ The conference was organised by members of the Wellcome Trust funded project, Harnessing the...