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Victims and Offenders
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sy1016
Module code: SY1016 Please note that from 2016 this will be a second-year module. Much of the modern focus in criminology and sociology has been on ways of better defining and understanding the rehabilitation, management, and punishment of the criminal offender.
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Human Rights, War, and Conflict in the Post-Cold War Order
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl7519
Module code: PL7519 Module Outline This module engages with the key debates in contemporary international relations about war, intervention, human rights and sovereignty.
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Art and Society in Spain
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp3149
Module code: SP3149 This module will explore some of the major aspects of Spain’s development between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries via a selection of paintings by the great masters of Spanish Art.
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Spanish Horror Cinema
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp3182
Module code: SP3182 This module aims to examine the importance of Spanish horror cinema as it has developed from before the Transition to democracy to more recent, post-millennial productions.
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Intellectual Property Law
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/lw3380
Module code: LW3380 Intellectual Property encompasses a vast array of artistic, technological and economic endeavours that permeate our daily lives. IP has, over the last 20-30 years, attracted growing attention from commercial, political and legal disciplines.
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Astrophysicist will have an enviable front row seat for the launch of Tim Peakes Soyuz spacecraft
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/astrophysicist-will-have-an-enviable-front-row-seat-for-the-launch-of-tim-peakes-soyuz-spacecraft
Martin Barstow, (pictured) Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Head of the College of Science and Engineering and Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science, will watch the launch of Tim Peake's Soyuz spacecraft live from mission control in Kazakhstan today (TUE).
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Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth
Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.
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Leicester professor judges space travel competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-professor-judges-space-travel-competition
Professor Alan Wells, Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the University’s Space Research Centre is playing a lead role in a global multi-million pound prize competition - Google Lunar XPRIZE - to land a robot on the moon.
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Aerial monitors explore reed die-back condition around lakes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/aerial-monitors-explore-reed-die-back-condition
An international team led by Professor Heiko Baltzer from the Department of Geography has developed a way to increase our understanding of the die-back of reeds throughout Europe - including popular tourist areas - through satellite and aircraft monitoring systems.
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Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster A systems accident
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/malaysia-airlines-mh17-disaster-a-2018systems-accident2019
On 13 October 2015 the Dutch Safety Board published its Final Report into the Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster, where a Boeing 777, carrying 298 passengers and crew, was downed by a missile over eastern Ukraine.