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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/102/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Culture on the Fringe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/culture-on-the-fringe
An upcoming event organised and hosted by Leicester’s CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies will be exploring the concept of ‘fringe’ culture- how it might be defined, what separates it from the ‘mainstream’, and the opportunities that fringe festivals can...
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Students awaken the science of Star Wars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/students-awaken-the-science-of-star-wars
Could a lightsaber really work? What would hyperspace travel look like? And how strong would a deflector shield need to be to fend off interstellar attacks? These are all questions that Star Wars fans have been asking for decades, and now that The Force Awakens has been...
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Research shows centuryold culture of blame still prominent today
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/research-shows-a-century-old-2018culture-of-blame2019-is-still-prominent-today
Representatives from over 20 different healthcare organisations will be convening at the University on 11 June to discuss how old patterns of patient safety and historical complaints against doctors are still being replicated in the modern welfare system – and what lessons...
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Lady in Lead Coffin revealed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/lady-in-lead-coffin-revealed
A mysterious lead coffin found close to the site of Richard III's hastily dug grave at the Grey Friars friary has been opened and studied by experts from the University of Leicester’s Archaeological Services (ULAS).
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Leicester to be part of regional hub for postgraduate training
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/leicester-to-be-part-of-regional-hub-for-postgraduate-training
Our University is working with a consortium of Midlands universities to open up a range of new opportunities for postgraduate study in the region.
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Ancient chimpanzee Adam lived over one million years ago
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/ancient-chimpanzee-2018adam2019-lived-over-one-million-years-ago
Chimpanzees have an ancient common ancestor – or genetic ‘Adam’ - that lived over one million years ago, according to a research team led by Professor Mark Jobling from the Department of Genetics.
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Coronavirus: Media coverage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/coronavirus-media-coverage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Media Cloud is monitoring global media coverage of the pandemic and has some interesting facts and figures on its website.
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UK NHS Trust and Health Board stillbirth and neonatal death rates published
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/uk-nhs-trust-and-health-board-stillbirth-and-neonatal-death-rates-published
Today MBRRACE-UK is publishing the first perinatal mortality surveillance report for Trusts and Health Boards in the UK.
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Walking pace found to strongly predict risk of death
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/walking-pace-mortality-risk-leicester
A new analysis of more than 400,000 UK adults by University of Leicester experts has found that easy to collect measures of physical health, particularly how fast someone walks, can significantly improve predictions of mortality risk.