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Career opportunities for Leicester’s China partnership graduates reach new highs, latest data shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/dalian
Graduates of the University of Leicester’s partnership with Dalian University of Technology in China are finding career success across the world.
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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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How to end the ‘UK’s role as a safe haven for corrupt individuals, their allies and assets’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/how-to-end-the-uks-role-as-a-safe-haven-for-corrupt-individuals-their-allies-and-assets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 A new publication from Transparency International which explores the rol e of the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies and complicity in the Panama Papers affair.
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Reflecting, Revisiting, Removing: Sophie Swithinbank discusses inhabiting Waugh’s Oxford and the imp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2019/07/03/reflecting-revisiting-removing-sophie-swithinbank-discusses-inhabiting-waughs-oxford-and-the-important-role-the-david-bradshaw-creative-writing-residency-has-had-on-her-development-as-a-pl/
Posted by gboland in Waugh and Words on July 3, 2019 Endings can be difficult. But last night’s performance at the Abingdon Arms was a jubilant, complete and perfect ending to what has been an incredible seven weeks of deep and intense focus on my writing practice.
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University of Leicester Staff Blog School of English Literary Leicester: Unveiling Joe Orton’s Enter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/10/30/literary-leicester-unveiling-joe-ortons-entertaining-mr-sloane/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on October 30, 2014 Literary Leicester 14 November, 2014 1.
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SVOM Integration of Leicester’s MXT Optics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/30/svom-integration-of-leicesters-mxt-optics/
SVOM Integration of Leicester's MXT Optics
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Black women’s suffrage collection launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/25/black-womens-suffrage-collection-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 New site from the Digital Public Library of America provides free access to thousands of primary source documents including letters, manuscripts and photos, political posters ...
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University of Rochester’s Empty Closet digital Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/22/university-of-rochesters-empty-closet-digital-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 22, 2012 http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=4769 Free access to one of the longest running LGBT newspapers. The Gay Liberation Front launched the Empty Closet in 1971.
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University of Leicester research into Joe Orton’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell to feature in LGBTQ+ mental health exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/poetic-licence
A play about the Leicester-born playwright, Joe Orton, informed by research from the University of Leicester, will feature in The Netherlands’ first exhibition about LGBTQ+ mental health.
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Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing
Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.