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Library and Learning Services: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/page/4/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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MBRRACE-UK collaboration sets out key recommendations for reducing inequities and improving care for babies born to Asian and Black mothers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/baby-care
The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, co-led by The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) group at the University of Leicester has published the results of a confidential enquiry into the care of Black and Asian babies born in the UK in 2019.
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‘Paradigm shift’ in ventilation needed to combat virus spread
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/ventilation-paradigm-shift
Scientists from across fourteen different countries have today (Thursday) appealed to government for a ‘paradigm shift’ in improving indoor ventilation standards, as part of efforts to combat airborne COVID-19 virus transmission.
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University of Leicester Chancellor to deliver Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/university-leicester-chancellor-maggie-royal-institution-christmas-lectures
University of Leicester Chancellor, Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, will give this year’s Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution.
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If at first you don’t succeed, (please) try, try again
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/medrace/medrace-voices/ololade-tijani-names
Ololade Tijani discusses the importance of addressing people by their names, especially those from ethnic minority backgrounds
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Company’s mission to revolutionise agriculture and eliminate global waste takes off at Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/messium-space-park
Agri-tech start-up Messium joins the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre for the United Kingdom (ESA-BIC UK) programme at Space Park Leicester.
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New UK ‘Space City’ cluster launched in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/space-city
£233 million investment in major UK cluster for space technology and research
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Scientists cook up a green recipe for recycling lithium-ion batteries using vegetable oil
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/battery-recycling-lithium-ion-cooking-oil
Technique developed at University of Leicester enables cheaper and sustainable recycling of battery black mass and could impact lithium-ion batteries used in billions of electronics and electric vehicles worldwide
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A tax on authentic cider? – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/24/a-tax-on-authentic-cider/
A consideration of how new EU proposals to remove tax exemption for small cider producers could impact craft cider producers in Wales.
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Gamma-ray burst is ‘Rosetta Stone’ for finding neutron star collisions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/gamma-ray-burst-neutron-star
A highly unusual blast of high-energy light from a nearby galaxy has been linked by a team of scientists including astronomers at the University of Leicester to a neutron star merger.