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• The Bulletin - Leicester academics involved in national stillbirth study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/the-bulletin-leicester-academics-involved-in-national-stillbirth-study

  In this episode of The Bulletin from the University of Leicester News Centre: Hear about the study which has found ‘significant variation’ in stillbirths and neonatal mortality across the UK.

• Largest study of UK online sex work reveals findings and recommendations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/largest-study-of-uk-online-sex-work-highlights-findings-and-recommendations

  Researchers with expertise in studying the sex industry from the Universities of Leicester and Strathclyde have carried out the largest study to date of UK online sex work, examining the working conditions, safety and policing of the industry.

• Long Covid researchers reflect on the PHOSP-COVID study 5 years on, ahead of Long Covid Awareness Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/long-covid-awareness-day-phosp

  A study team from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) have been reflecting on their world leading research into Long Covid ahead of International Long Covid Awareness Day on Saturday, March 15 2025.

• 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...

• University study will look at harmful air pollution in our homes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/air-pollution-leicester-study-funding

  Researchers from the University of Leicester have been awarded £2 million to investigate how harmful particles in the air inside our homes affect the breathing and lung health of both children and adults

• Social stress key to population’s rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/covid-19-social-stress

  Mathematicians have analysed global COVID-19 data to identify two constants which can drastically change a country’s rate of infection.

• Laura Basell

  https://le.ac.uk/people/laura-basell

  The academic profile of Dr Laura Basell, Associate Professor in Archaeology at University of Leicester

• Study shows how to better prepare medical students to provide compassionate care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/medical-students-stoneygate-empathy-centre

  A new study describes the creation of a curriculum which embeds empathic communication skills throughout undergraduate education for medical students.

• New DNA analysis helps bust 200-year-old royal conspiracy theory

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/kaspar-hauser

  DNA analysis carried out at University of Leicester refutes the theory that Kaspar Hauser was a ‘lost prince’ of the House of Baden.

• Leicester, Leicestershire

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/leicestershire/leicester

  Listen to speakers from Leicester, Leicestershire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.