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• Spring 2024 newsletter

  https://le.ac.uk/cls/study/patient-carer-group/newsletters/spring-2024

  Dear Members of the Patient and Carer Group, I am sure like me you are longing for the warm Spring days to come soon- it has been a long wet and miserable Winter. I hope that we can all enjoy Spring and Summer when they finally arrive.

• Air pollution is not just a human problem – it’s also changing the gut of British bumblebees

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/bees

  A research team from the University of Leicester is investigating air pollution’s effect on the gut of British bees.

• Departments receive recognition for tackling gender inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/university-of-leicester-departments-receive-recognition-for-tackling-gender-inequality

  Advance HE has announced that three University of Leicester departments are among the most recent institutions and departments to receive an Athena SWAN award, in the charter that recognises commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education.

• Helping hedgehogs project to challenge alarming UK wildlife decline

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/helping-hedgehogs-project-to-challenge-alarming-uk-wildlife-decline

  Snuffling hedgehogs visiting gardens throughout the United Kingdom are becoming less common due to declining populations – and an event organised by Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust at the Botanic Garden on Saturday 24 October hopes to challenge this worrying trend.

• Tackling student cheating by reimagining university assessment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/tackling-student-cheating-by-reimagining-university-assessment

  In a recent Guardian article, pro Vice-Chancellor for student experience Professor Jon Scott discusses how the increasing availability of academic ghost writing will necessitate a new way for universities to assess their students.

• Air pollution

  https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/air-pollution

  The work of Dr Julie Morrissey and colleagues at the University of Leicester, involves the elucidation of how bacteria adapt to air pollution and metal stress, and how this has impact on bacterial survival in a host and in the environment, and drives antibiotic resistance.

• Tackling issues of adult education in austere times

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/tackling-issues-of-adult-education-in-austere-times

  The Standing Conference on the University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults (SCUTREA) will be hosted by the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning in July 2016.

• Immigration and Ethnicity in Colonial and Post-Colonial France

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/fr3125

  Module code: FR3125 Immigration as an issue remains at the heart of social, cultural and political debates in France.

• Science Fiction: Exploring Space and Time

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3060

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• Science Fiction: Exploring Space and Time

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3060

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