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• Event: Update on UKRI Open Access books policy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/28/event-update-on-ukri-open-access-books-policy/

  Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on June 28, 2023 Join us on the 17 July for an important update on UKRI’s open access policy for academic books. Library Research Services will be explaining how to apply to UKRI’s new fund for open access academic books.

• Representing gender-based violence: literature, performance and activism in the Anglophone Caribbean

  https://le.ac.uk/anglophone-caribbean

  Find out about the international, collaborative research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and running from September 2021 to May 2023.

• New guidance for filmmakers on how to represent people with disabilities 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/disabilities-in-media

  A recent PhD from the University of Leicester has called on the film industry to better represent people with disabilities on the big screen.

• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and microbial stress responses

  https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/amr-and-stress-responses

  Antimicrobial resistance is a global issue that requires an in depth understanding of how resistance is acquired by microbes, including when under environmental stress, alongside innovative thinking to target resistance organisms.

• GlobBiomass

  https://le.ac.uk/clcr/research-projects/globbiomass

  The GlobBiomass project is to better characterize and to reduce uncertainties of forest above ground biomass estimates by developing innovative synergistic mapping approaches.

• Winners of postgraduate presentation competition announced

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/winners-of-postgraduate-presentation-competition-announced

  The two winners of a competition that challenged postgraduate students to present their research in just three minutes have been announced.

• West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss over the last 11000 years shown in new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-loss-over-the-last-11-000-years-shown-in-new-study

  An international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and involving our University has shown that wind-driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.

• Professor Corinne Fowler releases new book Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/colonial-countryside

  University of Leicester’s Professor Corinne Fowler has released a new book published by Penguin exploring Great Britain’s countryside and its links to colonialism.

• University programme recognised for work helping Leicestershire businesses reach Net Zero

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/green-gowns

  A University of Leicester programme has been commended by the Higher Education sector’s most prestigious awards for sustainability in the UK.

• Law lecturer cited in “the most important animal-rights case of the 21st century”

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/elephant-law-case

  University of Leicester legal expert, Dr Joe Wills, has been cited in what The Atlantic described as “the most important animal-rights case of the 21st century”.