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Making tourism work for poverty alleviation
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/impact-case-studies/making-tourism-work-for-poverty-alleviation
University of Leicester research has investigated whether and how tourists’ curiosity for impoverished neighbourhoods, communities and slums can help mitigate against the bad reputation that slums often suffer and can contribute to empowering residents.
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Critical Game Studies
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ms7218
Module code: MS7218 Module co-ordinator: Dr Alison Harvey Video games are an increasing important creative media form, and they have been the object of great academic inquiry in the last two decades.
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Climate of the Future, the View from the Past
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gl4111
Module code: GL4111 The Earth, its weather and its climate has been on a 4 billion year journey of climate change, which you'll explore during this module.
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Welcome to our first students from Dalian!
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/welcome-to-our-first-students-from-dalian
Welcome to our first students from Dalian! Welcome to our first students from Dalian! 1599|The University of Leicester has welcomed its first group of students from the Leicester International Institute (LII), Dalian University of Technology (DUT) in China.
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Showcase of Leicester research and innovation to go on tour
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/showcase-of-leicester-research-and-innovation-to-go-on-tour
An exhibition of the current work of our research community will be going on display at locations around Leicester from April, highlighting some of the key research innovations currently taking place from across our academic departments.
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Saturday 5th August Landing Sequence
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/06/saturday-5th-august-landing-sequence-1/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 6, 2012 Nominal tones received from MSL. Target location estimated 230 m from centre of ellipse in current trajectory. 10.25 pm Atmospheric entry has occurred. Now 7 minutes to go. Getting very quiet in the room.
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Leicester expert says decision on Aylesbury could set precedent for stopping gentrification of council estates
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/aylesbury-decision-could-set-precedent-for-stopping-gentrification-of-council-estates-says-expert
A Leicester geographer, who is an international expert on gentrification, has been working with local campaigners in London to overturn plans for the demolition and ‘regeneration’ of the Aylesbury Estate, one of Europe’s largest public housing estates.
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East Midlands Oral History Archive
https://le.ac.uk/emoha
The East Midlands Oral History Archive was originally funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish the first large-scale archive of oral history recordings for Leicestershire and Rutland.
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ESRC Reading Goals Project
https://le.ac.uk/esrc-reading-goals-project
Find out more about the ESRC Reading Goals project, at the University of Leicester. Revealing the implications of reading strategy for reading behaviour and comprehension.
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Hunting the silent killer
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/detecting-cancer
Professor Jacqui Shaw is leading research into new ways of detecting and monitoring cancer through the development of liquid biopsies or blood based tests.