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• Leicester student in world Wheelchair Rugby Challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/leicester-student-in-world-wheelchair-rugby-challenge

  A Leicester doctoral student has described the ‘great experience’ of taking part in the inaugural BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge.

• Prison rehabilitation researcher wins presenting challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/short-sentence-prison-rehabilitation-researcher-wins-presenting-challenge

  The Graduate School is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s 3 Minute Thesis competition, held on 20 May 2015. The competition featured eleven excellent presentations from both full time and part time postgraduate researchers.

• 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.

• Open a UK bank account

  https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/your-arrival/open-uk-bank-account

  Information about bank accounts, local banks and how to set up an account in the UK for new students starting at the University of Leicester.

• Russian

  https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/russian

  Study Russian courses for all levels at The University of Leicester.

• Latin

  https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/latin

  Study Latin courses for all levels at The University of Leicester.

• The Carceral Archipelago: Transnational Circulations in Global Perspective, 1415-1960

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-carceral-archipelago

  ‘The Carceral Archipelago’ has been funded by the European Research Council (2013-18), under the direction of principal investigator Professor Clare Anderson.

• New world plants in Italy, from observation to assimilation (1500-1850)

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/new-world-plants-in-italy

  Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (£112,364) October 2007 - September 2010 Dr David Gentilcore Prior to the research project, there had been little systematic study of the impact that plants from the New World had on early modern and modern Italy.