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SHAPE Your Future 1: Skills for University and Beyond
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ed0001
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People
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/people
Contact members of the Languages at Leicester team
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Jason Rigby
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2026/jason-rigby
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Historian to take part in stand-up comedy challenge
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/historian-to-take-part-in-stand-up-comedy-challenge
Kevin Schürer (pictured), Professor of English Local History in our School of History and lead genealogist in the discovery of King Richard III, has been announced as one of the contenders in a stand-up comedy challenge in Leicestershire.
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Using DNA fingerprinting to catch a killer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/using-dna-fingerprinting-to-catch-a-killer
This summer marks 30 years since DNA fingerprinting - discovered by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys right here in the University's Department of Genetics in 1984 - was first used in a criminal investigation.
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dataUNODC (Drugs and Crime statistics)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/08/dataunodc-drugs-and-crime-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2020 The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) new data portal makes its reliable global data on drugs and crime easier to access and visualise.
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Roman Remains: Classical Antiquity in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/en7246
Module code: EN7246 At the start of Philip Massinger’s tragedy The Roman Actor, the character Paris the 'Tragaedian’ declares that: ‘Our aime is glorie, and to leaue our names/ To after times’.
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Roman Remains: Classical Antiquity in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en7246
Module code: EN7246 At the start of Philip Massinger’s tragedy The Roman Actor, the character Paris the 'Tragaedian’ declares that: ‘Our aime is glorie, and to leaue our names/ To after times’.
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Astronomers discover four new ‘hot Jupiters’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/hot-jupiters
An international team of space scientists have discovered four new ‘hot Jupiters’ in our galaxy. University of Leicester PhD researcher Rosanna Tilbrook led and co-authored the study alongside colleagues in the UK, Switzerland, Chile, Germany, the USA and South Africa.
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What matters most in acute care?
https://le.ac.uk/gem/resources/outcomes/acute-care
This project aims to understand what matters to older people with frailty receiving acute care, and to develop methods for measuring these outcome goals.