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Research institutes and centres
https://le.ac.uk/cssah/research/institutes-centres
The College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities has two research centres and nine research institutes, working on groundbreaking and exciting developments within their fields.
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Groundbreaking research into cancer treatment receives financial boost
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/liquid-biopsies
Groundbreaking research to track how cancers evolve and investigate what treatments work best, has received a £455,000 financial boost.
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Professor Sir Hans Kornberg
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/hans-kornberg
Hans Kornberg with colleagues in 1974. L-R: Geoff Turnock, Arthur Rowe, unknown, David Critchley, Hans Kornberg, Ron Cooper, unknown, Colin Jones, Peter Henderson(possibly), Ken Jones (photo: Chris Willmott) The Biochemistry Department in 1974.
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What do grasshoppers eat? It’s not just grass! New Leicester research shows similarities with mammal teeth like never before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/grasshopper-mandibles
But analysis of the ecological importance of grasshoppers is not straightforward, and finding out what they eat requires detailed study of the contents of their guts or painstaking and time-consuming observations of how they feed in the wild. There is, however, a better way.
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Law news
https://le.ac.uk/law/news/law-news
Read news stories from Leicester Law School and keep up to date.
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Grantham, Lincolnshire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/lincolnshire/grantham
Listen to speakers from Grantham, Lincolnshire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.
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Counting sources
https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/historical-sources/counting-sources
History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project. This guide offers advice on undertaking quantitative analysis of historical evidence.
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Urine test is breakthrough for high blood pressure patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/urine-test-is-breakthrough-for-high-blood-pressure-patients
A research team including Leicester scientists has shown that a urine test leads to a drop in blood pressure in patients who had been struggling to regularly take their blood pressure lowering tablets.
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Eyres Monsell, Leicestershire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/leicestershire/eyres-monsell
Listen to speakers from Eyres Monsell, Leicestershire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.
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If tomorrow never comes.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/02/07/if-tomorrow-never-comes/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on February 7, 2018 This blog post is dedicated to the man who stepped out in front of my car as I drove to work this morning.