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Law expert shares in €2.79 million grant for irregular migration research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/irregular-migration
A University of Leicester expert on migrants’ rights and immigration law is a member of an international consortium granted €2.79 million in Horizon Europe funding for a three-year project on Measuring Irregular Migration and related Policies (MIrreM).
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Fossil study sheds light on ancient water-to-land transition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/ostracod
The research team’s findings, published in The Royal Society’s Biology Letters, show how ostracods began to swim into estuaries about 420 million years ago during the Silurian Period, beginning their exploration of many new habitats.
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Launch of welding partnership bonds cutting edge research with industrial know-how
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/launch-of-welding-partnership-bonds-cutting-edge-research-with-industrial-know-how
Launch of welding partnership bonds cutting edge research with industrial know-how Launch of welding partnership bonds cutting edge research with industrial know-how|A partnership forged between academia and industry aims to strengthen our knowledge of the science of welding...
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£1.7m awards announced for research spanning space and smoking
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/fellowships
The gap in the teeth of this medieval skull is a 'pipe notch' caused by constantly gripping a clay pipe.
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Digital life during the lockdown
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/digital-apps
Virtual social apps are helping us make do as best we can in lonely, desperate times.
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New theory claims pterodactyls did not have feathers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/pterosaurs
The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper from the University of Leicester refuting claims that feathers were found on dinosaurs’ close relative, the flying reptiles called pterosaurs.
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BPS Occupational Digest
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/bps-occupational-digest/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 A new blog and email produced by the British Psychological Society, Users can get RSS feeds or sign up to receive regular research updates covering psychology in the workplace.
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R-shief: tracking Arab public opinion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/r-shief-tracking-arab-public-opinion/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 The new website is currently under development. It aggregates data from social media – Facebook, Twitter etc. to track public opinion from the Arab world.
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Bloomberg: Studying Equity Volume Patterns for Clues on Price Direction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/22/bloomberg-studying-equity-volume-patterns-for-clues-on-price-direction/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2013 Global equity markets rallied this month after a contraction in June. Trading volume can indicate whether these price movements will hold.
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.