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Economic inequality is not “bad for everyone”, new research shows – wealthier people derive happiness benefits
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/economic-inequality-wealth-people-happiness
Increases in economic inequality raise the life satisfaction of wealthier people, while lowering the life satisfaction of people who earn less, newly published research shows.
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People
https://le.ac.uk/own-write/people
Meet the team involved in this exciting project to uncover the lives of ordinary men and women before the twentieth century.
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Leicester Pride 2020 launches online – “still celebrating, just in a different way”
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/pride
Pride 2020 Virtual Pride Leicester 2020 BCw2ua5eODI|Today the University of Leicester and Leicester Students’ Union are delighted to join Leicester Pride 2020, along with fellow universities, and Students’ Unions at, De Montfort and Loughborough.
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Cr/ia (Creative Research / Instituting Art) Training Series: Arts-Based Methodologies in Research
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/events/cria-training-series
Free online event organised by School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
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Third year fieldwork
https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/undergraduate/fieldwork/third-year
Find out about the exciting fieldwork you'll undertake during your third year studying with us. You will undertake an independent field-based project, which is is an exercise in practical, deductive geology and forms an important part of your degree.
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What the bones can't tell us
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/what-bones-cant-tell-us
We can tell the age, height and build of Richard III from the skeleton but the details of the injuries is based on knowledge of medieval weapons, armour and battles as well as on the bones themselves.
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New research on the Caribbeans largest concentration of indigenous preColumbian rock art
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/artists-before-columbus-new-research-on-the-caribbean2019s-largest-concentration-of-indigenous-pre-columbian-rock-art
New research by academics from our university and the British Museum working with colleagues from the British Geological Survey and Cambridge University outlines the science behind the largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art in the Caribbean.
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University celebrates largest online collection of local oral history recordings in the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/university-celebrates-largest-online-collection-of-local-oral-history-recordings-in-the-uk
A free public event to celebrate the publication of over 400 interviews recorded by the Leicester Oral History Archive between 1983 and 1990 will be held at the David Wilson Library on 1 March.
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Alumna wins top science writers award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/alumna-wins-top-science-writers-award
A Leicester graduate has won an Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) award for 'Best News Item' for her story about an ancient shipwreck victim.
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MBRRACE-UK
https://le.ac.uk/timms/research/mbrrace-uk
Explore the research into Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries in the UK (MBRRACE-UK) at the University of Leicester.