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  • 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

  • People

    https://le.ac.uk/country-house-technology/people

    Professor Marilyn Palmer Marilyn Palmer read History at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and then worked in teacher training at Loughborough College of Education before joining the History Department of the University of Loughborough and becoming its Head in 1983.

  • BACS Annual Conference

    https://le.ac.uk/arts/news/events/bacs-annual-conference

    Information about the British Association for Chinese Studies' annual conference, taking place at the University of Leicester from 3 - 5 September

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Study into common health condition compares surgery to less invasive treatment

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/dupuytrens

    Researchers from the University of Leicester have compared the effectiveness of surgery over a less invasive injection for the treatment of a common health condition

  • Student study investigates how lasers can control lightning

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/student-study-investigates-how-lasers-can-control-lightning

    Physics students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy have investigated the possibility of inducing, directing and controlling lightning strikes using lasers.

  • Study reveals how dietary phosphate can increase heart disease risk

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/study-reveals-how-dietary-phosphate-can-increase-heart-disease-risk

    A new study has found that high phosphate levels can cause a stress signal inside the cells that line blood vessels, leading to the release of microparticles that promote the formation of blood clots. Inorganic phosphate is a nutrient in nearly all diets.

  • Oral history projects in Nottinghamshire

    https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/nottinghamshire

    Browse projects and oral history materials from Nottinghamshire, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender history project, which is now part of the Rainbow Heritage website.

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