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New guidance for filmmakers on how to represent people with disabilities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/disabilities-in-media
A recent PhD from the University of Leicester has called on the film industry to better represent people with disabilities on the big screen.
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Scientists invited to take advantage of leading high energy research centres
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/scientists-invited-to-take-advantage-of-leading-high-energy-research-centres
Our University is facilitating a Europe-wide programme that makes available some of the leading facilities in high energy astrophysics to scientists from around the world.
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Leicester research informs new Sporting Equals initiative
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-research-informs-new-sporting-equals-initiative
Research from the University's Department of Sociology has informed Sporting Equals’s latest consumer research which provides valuable insight into the the young Asian Pakistani female market that sport providers can draw upon to make sport more inclusive for this...
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Know your zone
https://le.ac.uk/library/using/study-spaces/zones
Learn more about the zones and areas in the David Wilson Library at the University of Leicester.
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What do the public know and care about data privacy?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/what-do-the-public-know-and-care-about-data-privacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 A survey of the American public from the Pew Internet project It includes breakdown by political affiliation, age and agenda.
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The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/the-prado-museums-new-digital-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 …provides free access to a searchable catalogue of full text books and journals covering art history published from the late 15th to the early 20th century.
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New Social Science open access archive launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/22/new-social-science-open-access-archive-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2016 SocArXiv , being developed in association with Center for Open Science and an international research body of advisors will provide free open access to social science research papers .
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University of Leicester academic takes leading role in major new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon England
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/anglo-saxon-exhibition
Anglo-Saxon exhibition King Edgar’s Charter for the New Minster, Winchester – British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII ff.
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New research highlights impact of COVID-19 pandemic on UK pilots
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/covid-pilots
The University of Leicester’s Civil Safety and Security Unit has carried out a study highlighting the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on UK pilots.
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New grant to speed up bowel cancer diagnosis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/new-grant-to-speed-up-bowel-cancer-diagnosis
Scientists from Leicester, working with Edinburgh, have been awarded a grant of almost £25,000 from Bowel Cancer UK and Beating Bowel Cancer to investigate whether it’s possible to find DNA from cancer cells in stool samples.