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How Twitter users can work together to defuse social tensions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/how-twitter-users-can-work-together-to-defuse-social-tensions
A report co-authored by Dr Paul Reilly (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has found that social media sites such as Twitter can be useful in keeping the peace and defusing tensions during times of social unrest.
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Microbiologist honoured with bug named after him
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/microbiologist-has-bug-named-after-him
Microbiologist Bill Grant (pictured), Emeritus Professor in the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation has a new honour to add alongside his career accolades - he has a bug named after him.
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University building to be named after first female professor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/university-building-to-be-named-after-first-female-professor
President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has announced that a building at the University is to be named after its first female professor.
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Learning about history from food utensils
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/learning-about-history-from-food-utensils
What do dinner utensils say about Roman social interactions? Archaeologists and Big Data experts will be gathering at the University for a series of workshops between 26-27 September at College Court Conference Centre to provide some answers to that question.
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Giant rhinos and letters home historical Freshers Weeks at our University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/giant-rhinos-and-letters-home-historical-freshers2019-weeks-at-our-university
This year our University has launched its Fabulous First Year initiative, including the MyUoL app which allows students to access daily university information in one place including timetables, library search and university news.
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Department of Geology to host Palaeontology conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/department-of-geology-to-host-palaeontology-conference
The University's Department of Geology Palaeobiology Research Group has announced it will host the early career researchers’ conference Progressive Palaeontology 2017 Progressive Palaeontology, known as ProgPal, is a vibrant annual conference organised by and for early...
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The Production of News
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ms2000
Module code: MS2000 News is now everywhere in our lives: on our mobile phones, on our laptops and tablets, on our TV screens. More importantly, news is vital for any democratic society.
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Geography at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/geography
Find out more about Geography at the University of Leicester. We research and teach across three core strands of the discipline - Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Geographic Information Science (GIS).
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Media and Communication at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/media
The University of Leicester is one of the UK’s leading centres for research and teaching in media, communication and culture. Find out more about our undergraduate degrees, postgraduate courses and research opportunities.
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Roots of the British
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/related-research/roots-of-the-british
The Impact of Diasporas programme developed from the Roots of the British project. This project started as a small collaborative group interested in exploring how people from different disciplines could work together to create a more informed picture of the history of Britain.