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COVID-19 – fighting a global pandemic
https://le.ac.uk/research/human-health/covid
Our research experts have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by applying their world-changing, curiosity-driven research to the fight.
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Contact our PGCE advisers
https://le.ac.uk/education/study/pgce/contact
See contact details for our Primary and Secondary PGCE teams and get in touch if you have any questions about studying for a PGCE at Leicester.
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Environmental Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/ar2008
Module code: AR2008 How do we know what a society ate? What crops they grew and what animals they herded? One way to establish the relationship between ancient societies and the environments they lived in is by studying core materials such as plant remains, molluscs, animal...
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University of Leicester helps bring justice after 30 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/28-university-of-leicester-helps-bring-justice-after-30-years
Double helix of DNA 2050|Reviving the original technology of DNA fingerprinting helps bring justice after 30 years to convict rapist DNA fingerprinting tests performed at the University of Leicester has this week helped to convict Benjamin Whitehead for a rape he committed...
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Leicester contributes to new technical workforce report that spotlights vital gap in strategic leadership
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/technical-leadership-770
Gemma Black and Professor Sarah Davies from the University of Leicester feature in a case study for a new report from the UK Institute for Technical Skills and Strategy
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Blog: New Political Order? The strange demise of red and blue
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/new-political-order-strange-demise-labour-conservatives-blog
In this expert blog, Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, explains what’s happened to the Tories and Labour.
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Microbial Pathogenesis and Genomics
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/bs3011
Module code: BS3011 This module focuses on how microbial pathogens cause infectious diseases, tackling key ideas such as the nature and functions of virulence factors, how microbes overcome host defences and the on-going evolution of pathogenic traits.
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Social Epigenetics Lab
https://le.ac.uk/social-epigenetics-lab
The Social Epigenetics Lab looks at the ways environmental factors change gene activations by studying DNA expression in insects.
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Neotropical Rainforests
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy3431
Module code: GY3431 This module is taught entirely during a field trip in the Colombian Amazon rainforest. The module introduces to you some fundamental concepts of tropical ecology, ecological processes and biochemical cycles.
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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, c1350-1650
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs3691
Module code: HS3691 This module examines the indigenous societies of the Americas prior to and during the onset of European conquest and colonisation.