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Early Prehistory
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar1552
Module code: AR1552 What were the first human technologies? When did humans start making art? How did people in the deep past care for their dead? What can monuments tell us about the communities who built them? Prehistory – the study of humans before the...
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The End of Antiquity
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah3702
Module code: AH3702 The sixth century AD was a period of great upheaval and transformation, at the centre of which was the emperor Justinian (527-565 CE).
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Crime Prevention
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/cr2514
Module code: CR2514 In this module we will address one of the classic debates within both criminology and security management: ‘social’ vs. ‘situational’ approaches to crime prevention.
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Objects and Collections: Care, Management and Curation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mu7016
Module code: MU7016 This module looks inside the museum (and related institutions) to consider objects and collections, and how they are made, cared for and re-made within professional practice.
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Data Mining and Neural Networks
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ma7022
Module code: MA7022 This module will provide a comprehensive grounding in the structure of the data mining process and explain the basic notations and operations.
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Swift action taken in conservation project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/swift-action-taken-in-conservation-project
Ten specialist bird boxes have been installed as part of a conservation project to create habitat for swifts by our Environment team working with our Development Team in the Division of Estates and Facilities Management.
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Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth
Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.
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17m invested in Leicester to turn lab discoveries into new cancer drugs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/ps1-7m-invested-in-leicester-to-turn-lab-discoveries-into-new-cancer-drugs
Cancer Research UK has awarded the University £1.7 million through a new Centres Network Accelerator Award for research to crack the structure of molecules involved in cancer and to develop new drugs.
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Secrets of our ancient animal ancestors may be revealed through oldest DNA sequences
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/secrets-of-our-ancient-animal-ancestors-may-be-revealed-through-oldest-dna-sequences
700 million year-old DNA sequences from ancient animals have been unearthed by researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick, shedding new light on our earliest animal ancestors and how they influenced modern species - including the sponge.
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University to host major conferences in 2016
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/university-to-host-four-conferences-in-2016
The University is preparing to host four major conferences next year in collaboration with Leicester Shire Promotions.