Search
-
Babies born at the limits of viability
https://le.ac.uk/timms/research/babies-viability
Only 1 in 500 babies are born before 24 weeks' of pregnancy however, they make up around a fifth of all baby deaths. This work aims to improve care for babies born at this extremely early stage of pregnancy particularly around consistent determination of signs of life
-
Leicester University Community First Responders
https://le.ac.uk/engagement/case-studies/csr/first-responders
Leicester University Community First Responders (LUCFR) are trained student volunteers who travel around the city – in partnership with the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) – to provide potentially life-saving medical treatment to 999 emergency patients.
-
Letter of the Law and Spirit of the Law
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/03/07/letter-of-the-law-and-spirit-of-the-law/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on March 7, 2018 So this week we learned that a UK parliamentary body had suggested that some members of a cycling team did not break the sporting laws in terms of taking drugs but they had “crossed an ethical line”.
-
Economics of the Oscars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/economics-of-the-oscars/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 As the winners of the Academy awards 2018 have been announced, here are some social science sites for locating materials on the economics of the Oscars.
-
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/05/26/the-international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2020 …was created in 2004 to draw the attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexuals, transgender, intersex people and all other people with diverse sexual...
-
International Debt Statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/international-debt-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 International Debt Statistics 2014 Just launched by the World Bank, this new publication replaces the previous Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 to 2009) and the earlier World...
-
Latin American Eco-Literature
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp3163
Module code: SP3163 This module will engage with texts about the environment from across Latin America, as well as explore some of the central terms and concepts of contemporary ecocritical thought.
-
Latin American Eco-Literature
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/sp3163
Module code: SP3163 This module will engage with texts about the environment from across Latin America, as well as explore some of the central terms and concepts of contemporary ecocritical thought.
-
Teacher Education
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en7505
Module code: EN7505 This module aims to introduce you to some basic considerations in Language Teacher Education. The aim is to provide you with some guiding principles that can offer a foundation for becoming a language teacher educator.
-
Language in Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en7525
Module code: EN7525 In this module you'll investigate how and why the way we use English varies according to social, regional, and other dimensions (for example, age, gender or social class).