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• University of Leicester co-launches International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/avoidable-deaths

  The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) has launched the first International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths today (13 March) in Izumiotsu, Japan. International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths hopes to raise the visibility of disaster deaths.

• Scientists model impact of green infrastructure on City Centre traffic pollution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/scientists-model-impact-of-green-infrastructure-on-city-centre-traffic-pollution

  Scientists from EarthSense Systems and our University have published the results of a study into the effect of urban trees on air pollution.

• The Centre for Victorian Studies

  https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies

  Welcome to the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. We have a distinguished record of innovation and excellence in interdisciplinary Victorian Studies research and teaching at postgraduate level.

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april

  Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good idea to discuss topics such as sex, rape and pornography in classrooms in order to properly educate young people about...

• About

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/about/

  Consuming Authenticities is the project blog of an AHRC-funded research project “Consuming Authenticities: Time, Place and the Past in the Construction of ‘Authentic’ Foods and Drinks” involving scholars from the Universities of Leicester, Exeter, Wales Trinity St David, and...

• The Cultural Heritage of LGBT Activism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/the-cultural-heritage-of-lgbt-activism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 A new online exhibit from Europeana.   It gives a short history of Pride festivals using items such as photos and badges from Europe’s leading library and museum collections.

• Bloomberg: geographical distribution of revenue

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/28/bloomberg-geographical-distribution-of-revenue/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 28, 2013 Analysing a company’s revenue geographic breakdown is interesting angle to predict future strategic development. Find case studies using the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.

• Hilberts sixth problem Can physics be axiomatised

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/hilberts-sixth-problem

  In 1900, German mathematician David Hilbert published a set of 23 problems that he felt would further the disciplines of mathematics. All unsolved at the time, the problems influenced the work of mathematicians throughout the 20th century.

• Leicester to award prestigious scholarships

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-to-award-prestigious-scholarships

  Our University has been awarded five new scholarships to allow students to pursue a Master’s course wherever they are in the world.

• University physicists make Quite Interesting guest appearances

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/university-physicists-make-quite-interesting-guest-appearances

  Physicists from our University recently brought the aurora borealis to the studio of the popular BBC panel show QI.