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• International studies confirm positive effects of weight loss medicine for people with obesity-related heart failure

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/obesity

  The results of two studies, led by Professor Melanie Davies, Director of the NIHR Leicester BRC and Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre, using weight loss medication, semaglutide, have now been published

• Andrew Dunn: Page 14

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/14/

  Academic Librarian.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/14/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Beatrix Potter – 150th Anniversary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/28/beatrix-potter-150th-anniversary/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on July 28, 2016   Iconic fictional characters of childhood can be attributed to the creativity of Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator of the late 19 th – early 20 th century.

• EXILE installation marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/fifty-years-since-the-partial-decriminalisation-of-homosexuality-to-coincide-with-bold-new-installation-at-the-national-trust2019s-kingston-lacy-in-dorset

  A bold new installation at the National Trust’s Kingston Lacy in Dorset and involving researchers from our School of Museum Studies marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.

• Outside and beyond: 'Deconstructing a Medieval manuscript'

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/research/case-studies/medieval-manuscript

  Museum Studies PhD student Armand De Filippo discusses his research into sensory responses to Medieval manuscripts.

• Motor City Stories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/motor-city-stories/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 Archivist Gary Collins explains how the digitisation of an audio collection is enabling its contents to be used in a variety of ways, including for Coventry City of Culture 2021.

• Images of BBC Radio Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/27/images-of-bbc-radio-leicester/

  Information about a collection of slides of BBC Radio Leicester

• Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies explores interdisciplinary research one step at a time through the power of walking

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/walking

  A new University of Leicester project hopes to explore the ‘power of walking’ and how it impacts academics’ research processes.

• How do the media create and spreads stories?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/how-do-the-media-create-and-spreads-stories/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 An interesting open-source site is M edia Cloud.   This is a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.