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• Big Boys

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/01/11/big-boys/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2024 A playlist of the Channel 4 comedy series, Big Boys, is available at https://learningonscreen.ac.

• 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...

• Citizen science project makes 20 new astronomical discoveries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/kilonova-seekers

  The public has played an instrumental role in identifying cosmic explosions for a citizen science project involving the University of Leicester.

• UK Postal Service

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/uk-postal-service/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 This week UK government confirmed that Royal Mail will be floated on the Stock Exchange  Royal Mail: myth-busters – Answers common misconceptions about the government’s...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 12 18 November

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-12-18-november

  Dr Athina Karatzogianni from the Department of Media and Communication has written an article for The Conversation about 'hacktivist' group Anonymous and how it hopes to challenge the Islamic State.

• Community bank

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/29/community-bank/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 29, 2024 Dave Fishwick speaks to Radio 4’s Gap Finders about his community bank Burnley Savings and Loans. Listen on BBC Sounds or Box of Broadcasts (both available in the UK only).

• Black Social Worker Oral History Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/black-social-worker-oral-history-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This project is led by staff at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Security.

• Past events

  https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/events/past-events

  Browse past events which have taken place in the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

• Severe asthma symptoms worsen when treated with psoriasis medicine, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/risankizumab

  A medicine licensed to treat psoriasis worsened symptoms in patients with severe asthma, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

• National mooting champions graduate from Leicester Law School 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/national-mooting-champions-law-graduations

  Leicester Law graduates Ella Bailey and Amelia Gibson win UK’s top mooting competition, showcasing talent, teamwork, and student success in advocacy.