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Research to examine how children use social media to promote mental wellbeing and seek health advice
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/research-to-examine-how-children-use-social-media-to-promote-mental-wellbeing-and-seek-health-advice
A new project led by Dr Michelle O'Reilly from the Department of Sociology aims to explore the role social media plays in promoting mental health and wellbeing in children.
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Workshop to foster international links with reading researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/workshop-to-foster-international-links-with-reading-researchers
A psychologist at our University has received funding to establish research links between the UK and China to help combat poor literacy in those countries.
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PhD student develops cancer survival prediction tool
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/phd-student-develops-cancer-survival-prediction-tool
Researchers from the Department of Health Sciences have developed an online tool which presents a variety of measures that quantify the survival of patients with cancer from different perspectives.
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Botanic Garden in national finals of Britain in Bloom
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/botanic-garden-in-national-finals-of-britain-in-bloom
Our Botanic Garden is to take pride of place in the prestigious national Britain in Bloom finals. On Wednesday 2 August, Oadby & Wigston borough will be representing the East Midlands region in the Britain in Bloom competition.
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Quality Endorsement Scheme
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/quality-endorsement-scheme
Quality Endorsement Scheme at the ELTU Leicester.
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Universitys English Language Teaching Unit represented at Panama Bilingue Congress
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/university2019s-english-language-teaching-unit-represented-at-panama-bilingue-congress
Last week, Luke Timms from the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) visited Panama primarily to attend the Panama Bilingue Congress, but also to visit some local schools and represent the University at a scholarship fair.
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Feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives explored in new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/tooth-wear-sheds-light-on-the-feeding-habits-of-ancient-elephant-relatives
How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis of the surface textures of their teeth.
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Students to unveil Silverstone race car design
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/student-to-unveil-silverstone-race-car-design
Student racing enthusiasts will be unveiling their designs for a racing car which will be competing at Silverstone later this year at an event on 11 February at 6pm prior to the University’s 18th Annual Industry Lecture.
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Arbitration in the Americas
https://le.ac.uk/law/research/research-projects/arbitration-in-the-americas
Leicester Law School researchs and discusses reports on arbitration in the Americas, along with the raw data generated during the survey research on which the report is based, edited to protect the confidentiality of respondents.
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Observatory that will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe will carry instrumentation co-developed by our University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/james-webb-space-telescope-one-step-closer-to-launch-with-move-to-california
An observatory that will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy, is one step closer to launch.