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Why Academics Need to Engage in Public and Political Discourse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/08/04/why-academics-need-to-engage-in-public-and-political-discourse/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2020 People often struggle to distinguish between the advice of a charlatan and an expert, meaning that academic input into public discussions of important issues such as COVID-19 is vital, writes Aris...
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Understanding election coverage using Big data
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/understanding-election-coverage-using-big-data
Researchers from our Department of Media and Communication, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have for the first time analysed mass media coverage to understand how elections are covered by the press.
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The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature
https://le.ac.uk/modern-languages/research/poetics-of-plants
An overview of Professor Lesley Wylie's Leverhulme-funded project exploring the poetics of plants in Latin American Literature
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Landscape History
https://le.ac.uk/hypir/subject-tasters/landscape-history
Dr Richard Jones takes his students out into the field to explore the English Landscape and to discover what histories it can tell.
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Advanced Topics in Infection and Immunity
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mb7305
Module code: MB7305 Module Outline In spite of the global importance of infectious diseases, and the evolution of immune responses to combat and prevent such infections; microbiology and immunology originally evolved as separate disciplines.
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Methods, Techniques and Skills
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ch0063
Module code: CH0063 During your undergraduate study, you'll utilise a variety of different academic methods and techniques.
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Concepts in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy with Applications to Reservoir Geoscience
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gl3104
Module code: GL3104 In your second year, you would have learned about different depositional environments.
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Steered Research Project
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/bs3401
Module code: BS3401 This module is a degree-stream specific, practical laboratory/bioinformatics/field research project and report write-up undertaken alongside a small group of fellow students.
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Menopause Policy highlighted on BBC Sunday Politics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/menopause-policy-highlighted-on-bbc-sunday-politics
Menopause research that helped to shape a government report, and led to Leicester becoming the first UK University with a menopause policy, will be the subject of discussion during an upcoming episode of BBC Sunday Politics East Midlands.
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Earthquakes tsunamis and Japans explosive geology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/earthquakes-tsunamis-and-japan2019s-explosive-geology
Geological records of earthquakes and tsunamis affecting Japan and the surrounding region will be the subject of the 58th Annual Bennett Lecture on 13 March, which is being hosted by our Department of Geology.