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  • University awarded £14 million to expand research into lifestyle changes which could help those from multi-ethnic communities with chronic conditions live longer and better lives

    More than £14 million has been awarded to The University of Leicester to expand its research into the prevention and management of chronic disease through physical activity.

  • Scholarship set Bea on a path to a promising career in midwifery practice and research

    A midwife with ambitions to reach the very top of her profession has credited a scholarship for giving her the springboard to pursue her new career.

  • Reflecting upon Four Years of Criminal Corpses. By Rachel Bennett

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on September 6, 2016   Almost four years ago to the day I travelled to Leicester to attend my first PhD supervisory meeting armed with only a pen, a notepad and a head swirling with ideas.

  • Sludge in Healthcare

    Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on October 18, 2018   This week Richard Thaler, who wrote ‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness  ’, published “Nudge, Not Sludge” in Science .

  • Dean of Research celebrates awards and nominations

    We are hugely pleased that our Dean of Research, Professor Mat Hughes, has recently been longlisted for one award and won another.

  • Winning images paint a picture of research excellence

    The night sky in Hawaii, the contents of your kitchen cupboard and a dying bouquet of flowers are all the subjects of photographs highlighted in the University of Leicester’s annual celebration of research through visuals and images.

  • Quality of Government OECD data

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 QoG OECD Data is compiled by an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg.

  • SAPPHIRE hosts successful interdisciplinary workshop on antibiotic prescribing

    Posted by ekrockow in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on October 16, 2018 Is antibiotic overuse compromising the efficacy of current drugs? Are we going to run out of effective antibiotics? What interdisciplinary approaches may be useful...

  • Early-Career Researchers: your views are needed

    Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2015   The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) want to find out more about the issues facing early-career social scientists.

  • First ever SAPPHIRE-run Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School is huge success

    Posted by ekrockow in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on August 29, 2019 SAPPHIRE ran the first Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School. This was a two-day event held in a very sunny College Court in Leicester.

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