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Centre for New Writing
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing
The Centre for New Writing was established to diversify literary voices beyond the metropolitan mainstream. From our Midlands base we specialise in devolved literary culture. Find more information about our events, our activities and our people.
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Commercialisation
https://le.ac.uk/enterprise/commercialisation
Spin-outs The University of Leicester has a rich history of pioneering innovations and turning them into commercial success stories across multiple industries. The world-class research that takes place has led to a large portfolio of spin-out companies.
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Sin and Redemption in Medieval Literature
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en2040
Module code: EN2040 The 13th, 14th and 15th centuries are among the most fascinating in the development of English writing.
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Meditation and Devotion in Early Modern Poetry
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en7244
Module code: EN7244 ‘Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,/ Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine’: George Herbert’s poem ‘The Agony’ captures the paradoxical combination of desire, ‘sweetness’, and suffering that is at the heart of early modern devotional writing.
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Roman Remains: Classical Antiquity in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/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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Medical Microbiology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mb2020
Module code: MB2020 This module will cover the biology of pathogens causing major infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria, syphilis and others.
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Ecology and Sustainability: Contemporary Issues
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mn3131
Module code: MN3131 The Earth is getting hotter, sea levels are rising, fossil fuel stocks are shrinking, and life as we know it is under threat.
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Managing Security in the Workplace: Approaches, Regulation and Governance
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/cr7720
Module code: CR7720 This module considers approaches to managing security, regulation and governance. It will encourage you to critically consider the extent to which the study of crime at work can inform the study of security and risk management.
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Organised Crime
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/cr2024
Module code: CR2024 The term ‘organised crime’ is widely used in the media, within policy circles and academia.
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Living the Anthropocene
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy7712
Module code: GY7712 This module provides an in-depth introduction to the Anthropocene. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which humans have become geological agents, and on the effects that such agency has on Earth’s bio-physical systems.