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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
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Student volunteer dishes out positivity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/student-volunteer-dishes-out-positivity
Izzy Evans, a Psychology with cognitive neuroscience student at Leicester, has spent the past two years volunteering with local charity The Bridge to offer a helping hand in the kitchen- an experience that she says has been ‘invaluable’ to her.
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Open the Door: social science research for development and a sustainable future
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/open-the-door-social-science-research-for-development-and-a-sustainable-future/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 New publication from the European Commission . Download the full text in PDF from the website.
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Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 5
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/5/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Genetics PhD students photograph wins University competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/genetics-phd-students-photograph-wins-university-competition
Shane Hussey, a PhD student in the Department of Genetics, has won the Graduate School’s second PhDepictions photography competition. The runner-up prize went to Joe Emmings of the Department of Geology.
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A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.
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UK and Ireland Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology - 18th Annual Meeting
https://le.ac.uk/cehs/conference2025
18th Annual UK and Ireland Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Meeting
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Being Blue: An examination of the lived experience of minority ethnic police officers
https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/research/the-being-blue-project
The Being Blue project is the first in-depth study to include police officers from white minority ethnic backgrounds, and the first to include the lived experience of ethnic minority officers in leadership ranks.
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Explore the silent night this festive season: space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock to give Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures on the BBC
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/space-scientist-maggie-aderin-pocock-royal-institution-christmas-lectures
University of Leicester’s Chancellor hosts the 2025 Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution, broadcast on BBC Four and iPlayer on 28th, 29th and 30th December at 7pm
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Suggested research topics
https://le.ac.uk/english/study/research-degrees/application-process/research-topics
Take a look at the suggestions for PhD projects that staff in English at the University of Leicester would be interested in supervising.