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Heightened COVID-19 risk for BAME healthcare workers to be examined in major UK study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/covid-bame-risk-study
More than £2m of Government funding has been awarded to academics at the University of Leicester to investigate why people from BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) backgrounds have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, after higher proportions of associated...
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Migrant status compounds inequality for ethnic minority NHS staff, new study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/ethnic-minority-healthcare-workers
Ethnic minority healthcare workers who are also born overseas face a double disadvantage due to the combined effects of ethnicity and migrant status, according to new research by University of Leicester experts.
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Madness, Monarchy and Politics from George III to Queen Victoria
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2307
Module code: HS2307 In November, 1788, a story circulated that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, had shaken hands with the branch of a tree, believing it to be the King of Prussia.
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Madness, Monarchy and Politics from George III to Queen Victoria
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs2307
Module code: HS2307 In November, 1788, a story circulated that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, had shaken hands with the branch of a tree, believing it to be the King of Prussia.
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Madness, Monarchy and Politics from George III to Queen Victoria
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2307
Module code: HS2307 In November, 1788, a story circulated that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, had shaken hands with the branch of a tree, believing it to be the King of Prussia.
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Masterclass to highlight transformative impact of empathy on vulnerable patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/empathy-healthcare-masterclass-stoneygate
Professionals will learn how to break down barriers which prevent vulnerable patients from accessing healthcare at a masterclass delivered by a leading empathic healthcare expert in Leicester
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Peace Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/peace-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://www.peacewomen.org/ A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) which seeks to promote peace and disarmament.
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Switzerland rejects Basic Minimum Income referendum vote
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/switzerland-rejects-basic-minimum-income-referendum-vote/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 Find out more using LSE’s research posting . This has links to the results and analysis of the issues at stake.
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Richard III interest in India
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/richard-iii-2013-interest-in-india
News of the discovery and research into Richard III has been of global interest – but the University of Leicester news team were a little surprised to find a photo of a boy in India sporting a Richard III T-shirt.
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Aims and Methods in Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1061
Module code: AR1061 How do archaeologists find sites? How do they excavate them? How do they take the fragments of things they find and use them to tell stories about the past? This module gives you an introduction to the things archaeologists do, the materials they study and...