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• Distance learning courses

  https://le.ac.uk/politics/study/distance-learning

  Find out more about the distance learning taught postgraduate degrees available in Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester, and our PhD via Distance Learning.

• Research suggests controversial test could be leading to unnecessary open heart operations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/research-suggests-controversial-test-could-be-leading-to-unnecessary-open-heart-operations

  An approved international test to check whether people need open heart surgery could be sending twice as many people under the knife unnecessarily, at a cost of nearly £75m, research by our University has suggested.

• Measuring financial inclusion: the Global Findex Database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/14/measuring-financial-inclusion-the-global-findex-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 14, 2012 http://econ.worldbank.

• Equal Pay Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/equal-pay-day-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 This year equal pay day was 10 th November  This highlights the gender gap in wages as it is calculated by researchers to represent the last day in which women earn the same as men.

• Tequila: Pulque’s Friend, Cousin, Usurper?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/01/tequila-pulques-friend-cousin-usurper/

  Deborah Toner discusses the relationship and rivalry between pulque and tequila in Mexican history, and summarises a recently published book by Marie Sarita Gaytan, Tequila: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2014)

• Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/peatlands-will-store-more-carbon-as-planet-warms-study-suggests

  Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests Photograph of a peat field|Leicester scientist part of international study into effects of global warming on peatlands Global warming will cause peatlands to absorb more carbon – but the effect will weaken as...

• Planetary Magnetospheres and Ionospheres

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/planetary-science/planetary-magnetospheres-and-ionospheres

  Our research focuses on the processes that take place in the outer gaseous environments of solar system bodies, involving the coupling of the planetary upper atmosphere and magnetic field with the solar wind plasma that blows continuously outward from the Sun.

• Cycling study transforms heart health of dialysis patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/cycle-hd

  Cycling at moderate intensity during dialysis could drastically improve the heart health of patients with kidney failure and result in significant savings for the NHS, according to new research by the University of Leicester supported by the charity Kidney Research UK and...

• Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE appointed Chancellor of the University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maggie-aderin-pocock

  Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, has joined the University of Leicester as its new Chancellor today (1 March).

• Jenn Hobbs

  https://le.ac.uk/people/jenn-hobbs

  The academic profile of Dr Jenn Hobbs, Lecturer in International Relations at University of Leicester