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• Sex and Violence

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/cr2003

  Module code: CR2003 In this module you’ll be immersed in key concepts of violence and violent crime, and how they relate to gender, sex and sexuality.

• Collection development strategy 2022 - 2031

  https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/collection-development-strategy

  university library's 10 year collection development strategy including key priorities, kpi's, context and categorisation of collections

• 3 Lessons Learned From Failed QI Projects

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/08/23/3-lessons-learned-from-failed-qi-projects/

  Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on August 23, 2018   Dr Hannah Laidley, AFY2, University of Leicester     Quality improvement work can feel inescapable. That’s because it is; we have to do it to progress through the foundation programme.

• Swift satellite spots its thousandth gamma-ray burst

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/swift-satellite-spots-its-thousandth-gamma-ray-burst

  Leicester scientists are celebrating the discovery of the 1,000th gamma-ray burst (GRB) by the US/UK/Italian Swift spacecraft. GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole.

• Increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with shorter height

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/increased-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease-could-be-associated-with-shorter-height

  The shorter you are, the more your risk of coronary heart disease, according to a new study led by Professor Sir Nilesh Samani (pictured), British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences.

• Study reveals new associations with lung disease and smoking behaviour

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/study-reveals-new-associations-with-lung-disease-and-smoking-behaviour

  Smokers who survive their habit into old age may hold the key to better lung health for all, according to a study involving co-led by Professor Martin Tobin (pictured) from the Department of Health Sciences and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC).

• Are we entering a new age

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/are-we-entering-a-new-age

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured) from the Department of Geology has been interviewed by Academic Minute discussing the Anthropocene and whether mankind has entered a new age.

• TEDx comes to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/tedx-comes-to-leicester

  Some of Leicester’s best known institutions and organisations are getting behind an inspiring event, which is set to bring some of the Leicester’s best thinkers and community activists to the city this year.

• Academic and adventurer describes climbing and cataloguing remote regions of the South American Andes mountains

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/academic-and-adventurer-describes-climbing-and-cataloguing-remote-regions-of-the-south-american-andes-mountains

  Dr Suzie Imber from the Department of Physics and Astronomy is giving a talk about a unique adventure which saw her scale and catalogue a remote corner of the Andes mountains.

• Research finds Earths technosphere now weighs 30 trillion tons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-finds-earths-2018technosphere2019-now-weighs-30-trillion-tons

  An international team led by our geologists has made the first estimate of the sheer size of the physical structure of the planet’s technosphere – suggesting that its mass approximates to an enormous 30 trillion tons.