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Academics celebrate Leicesters Premier League victory
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-academics-celebrate-leicesters-premier-league-victory
Academics from across the University have been celebrating Leicester City Football Club's sensational victory in the Premier League - the first time in history and making Leicester one of only six teams to win the Premier League.
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Unemployment Heart Disease prevention fingerprints and babyfarming among research showcased at Festival of Postgraduate Research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/unemployment-heart-disease-prevention-fingerprints-and-2018baby-farming2019-among-research-showcased-at-university-of-leicester-festival
Research into youth unemployment in the East Midlands and unemployment amongst the elderly and unskilled, how manipulations in genetic ‘switches’ can help prevent heart disease, creating new algorithms for fingerprint identification and a re-evaluation of ‘baby-farming’...
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A poetic double helix
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/20-innovative-poem-complex-structure-of-dna
Double helix|Innovative poem by University of Leicester academics reflects complex structure of DNA. A collaboration between a poet and a biologist at the University of Leicester has resulted in a unique poem which will be heard on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 25 February.
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Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library
Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a star-studded panel discussion on Joe Orton’s 1969 play What the Butler Saw at the British Library on Tuesday 23 April 2019.
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BBC Gardener Nick Bailey donates entire garden to the University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/bbc-gardener-nick-bailey-donates-garden
Director of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden kindly donates plants from his headline ‘Plant-based’ garden showcased at BBC Gardener’s World Live
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University of Leicester Bake Off star to join Vice-Chancellor at UK technicians conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/bake-off-star-vice-chancellor-technicians-conference
The University of Leicester’s Great British Bake Off finalist will join the institution’s Vice-Chancellor at the UK’s largest conference for technical professionals in higher education and research.
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Exploring explosions in space
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/making-waves
Exploring gamma-ray bursts, the enormous, distant explosions in space.
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Where is the help for victims of hate?
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/hate-crime
Improving policy and practice by leading research into what lies behind the official hate crime figures.
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Biodiversity
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/biodiversity
Goal 15: Life on Land Goal 15: Life on land sustainable development goal 15 graphic 1675 Read the full report 100| Leicester for Life is a promise made by the University to uphold our motto “So that they may have life.
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EMSYCAR
https://le.ac.uk/timms/research/older-projects/emsycar
Find out more about the East Midlands & South Yorkshire Congenital Anomalies Register research at the University of Leicester.