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STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships at Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2024/04/26/stfc-ernest-rutherford-fellowships-at-leicester/
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships at Leicester
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AboutUs
https://le.ac.uk/top-links-about-us
Leicester probably started as a Celtic settlement. It was the capital of the local Celtic tribe, the Coriletavi. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and they captured Leicestershire by 47 AD. The Romans built a fort at Leicester in 48 AD.
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The Lord of Misrule and his band of ‘lusty guts’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/20/the-lord-of-misrule-and-his-band-of-lusty-guts/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 20, 2016 Behaving badly at the Christmas festivities and doing something you would really rather not remember is not an exclusively modern phenomenon, as a trawl through our Special Collections reveals –...
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Ice Giant Systems as the Next Step in our Exploration of the Solar System
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/09/ice-giant-systems-as-the-next-step-in-our-exploration-of-the-solar-system/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 9 November 2020 Dr. Leigh N. Fletcher introduces a special issue of Phil. Trans.
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LIFT-UP PRETERM
https://le.ac.uk/timms/collaborations/lift-up-preterm
The LIFT-UP Preterm project aims to create innovative tools and methods to promote RCTs in very preterm populations using the RECAP Preterm platform.
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£8.4m for new COVID-19 research
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-phosp
PHOSP-COVID is the first UK wide study to assess the health impacts of COVID-19 on patients and their rehabilitation.
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Women are more fairly funded in the social sciences
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/women-are-more-fairly-funded-in-the-social-sciences
Accounting for academic position, women are as successful as men at winning grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and they receive grants that are actually slightly larger than those won by men.
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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.
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Bonds latest technique could give criminals a nasty shock
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/bonds-latest-technique-could-give-criminals-a-nasty-shock
A new crime-fighting technique developed by Dr John Bond OBE from the Department of Criminology could leave criminals shaken - and a little bit stirred.
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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.