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Leicester DNA research presented to House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-dna-research-presented-to-house-of-commons-science-and-technology-committee
Written evidence from the University of Leicester about the future of DNA research in the UK has been presented to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s inquiry into genomics and genome editing.
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Voter behaviour and the Internet
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/voter-behaviour-and-the-internet/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 How the internet is changing voter behaviour; see this recent Google blog post: http://googlepolitics.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-poll-how-web-is-connecting-voters.
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Obesity ‘accelerates’ COVID-19 mortality risk amongst ethnic minorities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/covid-19-obesity
A stronger association exists between deaths from COVID-19 and obesity in people of Black, South Asian and other ethnic minority groups than in White people, latest research published in the journal Nature Communications demonstrates.
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Boards of examiners for assessed components excluding the Thesis
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-9/appendix-3/boards-of-examiners
(3)9.84 A Board of Examiners shall be convened for each professional doctorate programme. The Board of Examiners shall be directly responsible to the Senate for the conduct of its business. (3)9.
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Mitigating circumstances for assessed components excluding the Thesis
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-9/appendix-3/mitigating-circumstances
(3)9.42 Professional doctorate students must notify their School of any circumstances that may adversely affect their ability to complete the specified assessed components.
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Touch Medical student to represent Great Britain at the European under23 fencing championships
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/touche-medical-student-to-represent-great-britain-at-the-european-under-23-championships
Alex Lloyd, a Medical student and platinum sports scholar at our University, has been selected by British Fencing to represent Great Britain at the European under-23 Championships in Yerevan, Armenia from the 15-19 April.
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Leicester team shows how to reduce carbon emissions from agricultural peatland
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-team-shows-how-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-from-agricultural-peatland
Raising the water table could slow down global warming, boost crop yields, and preserve peat soils according to a new study.
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Sustainability in the Workplace is About More than the Environment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2022/03/15/sustainability-in-the-workplace-is-about-more-than-the-environment/
Organisations need to think about sustainability when it comes to employees, not just the environment. Working with academics to conduct studies of employee involvement in relation to sustainability could lead to increases in productivity
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/193/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Andrew Dunn: Page 196
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/196/
Academic Librarian.