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• Dissertation

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl7503

  Module code: PL7503 The dissertation provides an opportunity for you to develop a specific subject and specialist knowledge, which means that your research has to be on a topic that fits with your degree title.

• Archaeology of Human Evolution

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2605

  Module code: AR2605 When did early humans start to walk on two legs? What were the earliest stone tools? What do 30,000 year old cave paintings mean? And how did brains, language and consciousness develop? These are just a few of the fascinating questions we will explore in...

• Archaeological Theory

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2601

  Module code: AR2601  What was gender like in the past? How are politics and the past entwined? How was the past different from the present? How can archaeology help us think differently about the present? These are some of the key questions posed by this exciting...

• Focused Ion Beam (FIB)

  https://le.ac.uk/cse/research/facilities/advanced-microscopy-facility/microscopes-and-equipment/fib

  A FIB provides the capability to understand how materials and features within the microstructure are interconnected, which aids academic understanding when studying with the Advanced Microscopy Facility (AMF).

• Are we doomed New online course asks how we can make the modern world sustainable

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/are-we-doomed-new-online-course-asks-how-we-can-make-the-modern-world-sustainable

  A new online course, available on the FutureLearn social learning platform, will unpick the complex global challenge that is sustainability and provide a deeper understanding of what it means to be a global citizen.

• Treating insomnia may reduce mental health problems

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/treating-insomnia-may-reduce-mental-health-problems

  Treating insomnia with online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) could reduce mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, and paranoia, according to a large randomised controlled trial published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

• Research brings hope of new treatment for asthma sufferers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/research-brings-hope-of-new-treatment-of-asthma-sufferers

  Improved treatments for people with severe asthma are a ‘step closer’ after a research team led by Dr Ruth Saunders from the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation identified a breakthrough in the cause of airway narrowing.

• Leicester geneticists involved in research into the UKs leading cause of food poisoning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-geneticists-involved-in-research-into-the-uks-leading-cause-of-food-poisoning

  Geneticists at the University are involved in new research, led by the University of Liverpool, which reveals that the immune response of farmed chickens does not develop fast enough to fight off Campylobacter during their short lifespan.

• How the enclosure of common land sparked riots revolts and resistance in the Midlands

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/how-the-enclosure-of-common-land-sparked-riots-revolts-and-resistance-in-the-midlands

  A series of riots by angry farmers opposing the enclosure of common land in the Midlands in 1607 will be the subject of this year’s Hoskins Lecture on 5 May.

• Rapid reaction equipment

  https://le.ac.uk/mcb/about/facilities-and-services/biophysical-instrumentation-and-anaerobic-facilities/rapid-reaction-equipment

  Find out about the rapid reaction equipment available in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Leicester. We are home to an Applied Photophysics SX20 Stopped-flow spectrometer and Hi-Tech RQF-63 Rapid Quench flow system.