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People
https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/people
Our activities in the Centre for Hate Studies are coordinated by Professor Neil Chakraborti, Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy, Dr Chris Allen and Dr Amy Clarke. They are highly experienced in researching, evaluating and training on hate and extremism-related issues.
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Why do a MOOC in Museum Studies?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2015/12/10/why-do-a-mooc-in-museum-studies/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on December 10, 2015 Over 11,000 people signed up for the first run of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Behind the Scenes at the 21 st Century Museum , and they were overwhelmingly positive about their experience.
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The Reading List
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/27/the-reading-list/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2022 A podcast in which members of the University talk to Dr Emma Parker about their favourite book. A must-hear for all who love reading for pleasure.
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Observing Jupiter’s auroras with Hubble
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/30/observing-jupiters-auroras-with-hubble/
Posted by Jonathan Nichols in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 30, 2016 Unfortunately, they don’t let you take observing trips to the Hubble Space Telescope; perhaps the only downside to using the veteran observatory.
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Insights into visual supersense provided by new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-researcher-gains-new-insights-into-human-visual-abilities
An experiment originally designed to test the visual abilities of octopuses and cuttlefish has provided researchers with new insights into a human supersense – the ability to perceive the polarisation of light.
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Archaeological detectives discover secret square beneath worldfamous Avebury stone circle
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/archaeological-detectives-discover-2018secret-square2019-beneath-world-famous-avebury-stone-circle
Archaeologists have found a striking and apparently unique square monument beneath the world famous Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire.
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Scientists explore complex pattern of tipping points in the Atlantic’s current system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/atlantic-tipping-points
New mathematical modelling by University of Leicester of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – a system of ocean currents – shows greater complexity than previously thought, revealing a hierarchy of irreversible ‘tipping points’
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Poverty in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/poverty-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 The latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation annual monitoring report – 20% of working age adults without children are in poverty.
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Researchers show bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/researchers-show-bacteriophages-can-affect-melioidosis-disease-acquisition
Researchers show bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition Researchers show bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition|An international research team including Leicester researchers has developed a mathematical model for monitoring and...
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Targeting toxins
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/targeting-toxins
In 2015, a team from our Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation used X-ray crystallography to determine the molecular structure of pneumolysin.