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• A Historical Long View of Posthumous Harm: Comparing organ snatching to body-snatching. By Floris To

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/16/organ-and-body-snatching/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 16, 2016   Improper Procurement and Retention   Taking organs of dead children without parental permission at Alder Hey is a practice The Economist (2001) dubbed the ‘return of the body-snatchers’.

• Sarah Wood

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/sarah_wood/

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• He answered his emails instantly – What an Epitaph.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/04/11/he-answered-his-emails-instantly-what-an-epitaph/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on April 11, 2019 Back in August I published Blog Post titled “When you’re working you’re working”.

• Sofa generation causing epidemic of Type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/sofa-generation-causing-epidemic-of-type-2-diabetes-researchers-suggest

  The nation’s lack of physical activity is leading to a new “sofa generation” at risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to Professor Melanie Davies (pictured), an internationally renowned expert in Type 2 diabetes and Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre.

• Academics contribute to major project celebrating 80 years of British TV

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/academics-contribute-to-major-project-celebrating-80-years-of-british-tv

  Professor Helen Wood and Dr Jilly Boyce Kay from the School  of Media, Communication and Sociology have contributed to BBC History’s new archive to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the launch of the first British television service by the BBC.

• Newborns, migrants and the idea of home explored at University of Leicester lectures

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/26-doctoral-inaugural-lectures

  Doctoral Inaugural Lectures on 3 October discuss length of stay in neonatal care and home-making practices of migrants

• 22,000 children aged 10 and 11 are obese

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/22000-children-aged-10-and-11-are-obese/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 …according to the latest report from the Local Government Association. The House of Commons also released the report: House of Commons Health Committee Childhood obesity: Time for action.

• More doctors to be trained in Leicester than ever before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/more-doctors-to-be-trained-in-leicester-than-ever-before

  More much-needed doctors are to be trained at the University of Leicester following the Government’s announcement of the biggest ever expansion of undergraduate medical training.

• The NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/28/the-nasa-jaxa-global-precipitation-measurement-mission/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 28 October 2020 Leicester precipitation scientists Daniel Watters and Alessandro Battaglia outline how a NASA-JAXA mission addresses the challenge of global measurement of precipitation.

• Leicester scientists shortlisted to showcase their research to the House of Commons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-researchers-shortlisted-to-showcase-their-research-to-the-house-of-commons

  Researchers from the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology will have the opportunity to present their research to policy makers after being shortlisted for the STEM for Britain 2017 awards at the House of Commons.