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• University of Leicester ranked in UK top three for COVID-19 research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/leicester-ranked-in-uk-top-three-for-covid-19-research

  Leicester has been ranked as one of the top performing universities in the UK for COVID-19 research.

• Drying Congo peatlands threaten to accelerate climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/congo-cop27

  Study reveals how the Congo peatlands changed from being a major store of carbon to a source of damaging carbon dioxide emissions.

• Supporting student learning in 2020-21: avoiding a common misstep

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2020/06/04/supporting-student-learning-in-2020-21-avoiding-a-common-misstep/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 4, 2020 One if the many important questions to have arisen during the current pandemic, is how we can effectively induct and orient students into new ways and, indeed, new modes of...

• The ‘Learning Outcomes Project’: update on activities – University of Leicester.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/11/24/projupdate/

  The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. The 'Learning Outcomes Project': update on activities.

• Banning of burquinis is a step towards depriving Muslim women of equal citizenship expert suggests

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/banning-of-2018burquinis2019-is-a-step-towards-depriving-muslim-women-of-equal-citizenship-expert-suggests

  The recent banning of the ‘burquini’ in Cannes is a step towards depriving Muslim women of equal citizenship, according to Dr Saeeda Shah (pictured) from the School of Education.

• Up to a third of people with type 2 diabetes not taking prescriptions properly

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/05-type-2-diabetes-prescriptions

  Leicester researchers have used a unique screening approach to suggest that nearly a third of people with type 2 diabetes may be putting their health at risk because they are not taking their medications correctly.

• World-first clinical trial to test personalised treatments for aggressive form of lung cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/29-world-first-clinical-personalised-treatment-lung-cancer

  The first-ever trial into delivering personalised treatment for mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, opened at the HOPE Clinical Trials Facility at Leicester's Hospitals today (Tuesday 29 January).

• Targeting toxins

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/targeting-toxins

  In 2015, a team from our Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation used X-ray crystallography to determine the molecular structure of pneumolysin.

• The sting of the bling

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/sustainable-metal-extraction

  Experts Professor Gawen Jenkin and Dr Dan Smith explain the importance of pursuing sustainable methods of metal extraction in order to tackle climate change.

• Male DNA cracks crime and illuminates history

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/dna-and-crime

  Professor Mark Jobling discusses how research into the Y-chromosome helps in solving crime.