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Learning Theories: Understanding and Predicting Behaviour
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ps3118
Module code: PS3118 In this module, you will learn about the three dimensions of learning: The conditions of learning The content of learning How learning controls behaviour In doing so, they will evaluate behavioural research methods used to...
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Quasars and Cosmology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pa3605
Module code: PA3605 This module will build on your knowledge in speciality physics by further exploring topics in extragalactic astrophysics. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are amongst the most luminous objects in the Universe.
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Research Project
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pa3900
Module code: PA3900 This module gives you an opportunity to take part in real scientific investigation, working on an area of active research in a small group, under the guidance of a member of academic staff.
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Archaeology of Human Evolution
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/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...
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Dissertation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar3603
Module code: AR3606 Your dissertation gives you the opportunity to bring together all the research skills and wider reading that you have continually been developing over the course of your degree and use these skills to produce an extended piece of independent research.
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Leicester scientists develop new imaging system for worlds largest gamma ray observatory
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/leicester-scientists-develop-new-imaging-system-for-world2019s-largest-gamma-ray-observatory
Richard White (MPIK), Duncan Ross (UoL), Jon Lapington (UoL) Image credit Richard White, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (MPIK) Scientists from the University's Space Research Centre have returned from the inauguration of the Gamma-ray Cherenkov...
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Free online course provides insights into Richard III reinterment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/free-online-course-provides-insights-into-richard-iii-reinterment
From Medieval cuisine to the War of the Roses, the third run of the free popular ‘England in the Time of King Richard III’ online course, which is launching Monday 16 February, will offer a fascinating insight into life during 15th century England in the build up to the...
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Celebrating 25 years of Hubble
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/celebrating-25-years-of-the-hubble
On 24 April 1990, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor joins team assessing Higher Education teaching quality UK-wide
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/pro-vice-chancellor-joins-team-assessing-higher-education-teaching-quality-uk-wide
Professor Jon Scott, our University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Experience, is among the appointments announced by HEFCE to its Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) panel which includes academics, students, employers and widening participation experts.
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Gentrification expert discusses 'managed decline' of estates for BBC
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/gentrification-expert-discusses-2018managed-decline2019-of-estates-for-bbc
The managed decline of inner-city social housing Loretta Lees, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester, comments on councils' increasingly common policy of managed decline of inner-city estates ahead of regeneration.