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• Generalised Linear Models

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ma3201

  Module code: MA3201 This module extends the ideas used in linear modelling to a more general framework, which allows the possibility to include a number of analyses in one general approach.

• More than 50 years of Leicester in space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/05-more-than-50-years-of-leicester-in-space

  In World Space Week we reflect on the University of Leicester’s long history of making out of this world discoveries.

• The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/hoodie

  Read the article "The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• Who was Richard III?

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/who-was-richard-iii

  A brief primer on the last Plantagenet king of England and his links with Leicester.

• Response by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys to Honorary Degree Oration, July 2004

  https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/honorary-degree-oration/honorary-degree-response

  Professor Jeffreys response to being awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science at the University of Leicester.

• University community completes Poppy Pilgrimage

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/poppy-pilgrimage

  The red poppy, which recalls the horrors of the Western Front in the First World War, is a well-known and well-established symbol of support for the Armed Forces community and Remembrance for lives lost in all conflicts.

• Later Prehistory

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar1553

  Module code: AR1553 Why did people first start living in crowded cities?  How can exchanging gifts be a crucial social and political practice? How and why do state societies emerge? How is power created and maintained? This module explores turning...

• Tribute to architect behind iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/tribute-to-architect-behind-iconic-engineering-building

  The architect James Gowan, who co-designed the University of Leicester’s Engineering Building, has died aged 92. He formed a partnership with James Stirling in the 1950s the results of which included our Engineering Building, completed in 1963.

• Long-running course receives postgraduate funding boost

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/long-running-course-receives-postgraduate-funding-boost

  Two major funders of health and medical research across the UK are supporting a long-running course at our University with a total of seven studentships.

• Sport and the Imperial bond

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/sport-and-the-imperial-bond

  Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (£43,708) July 2009 - April 2011 Dr Prashant Kidambi In recent years, historians have shown how sport became deeply intertwined with imperial and national identities within the British Empire.