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Sociology in Practice
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/sy1005
Module code: SY1005 From its origins in the birth of modernity, sociology has continued to be at the heart of debates about people’s experiences and opportunities in society.
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The Mining Lifecycle Field Course – Cornwall
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gl3113
Module code: GL3113 Pre-requisites: GL2106 There is a fine balance between the exploitation of the Earth’s resources and the inevitable impacts that it has on the environment.
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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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Natural Resources and Energy for the 21st Century
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gl1104
Module code: GL1104 Where do the materials in my mobile phone come from? Should we mine in the Arctic? What are the viable alternatives to fossil fuels? How does the discovery of diamonds change the history of a country? Natural resources are the fundamental basis for the way...
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Un Americans: Ideological Dissent, Patriotic Subversion and Isolating the "Other" in the USA
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/un-americans
British Academy Research Development Award (£111,404) July 2009 - June 2012 Dr George Lewis When supporters of Sarah Palin decried Barack Obama as "un-American" during the 2008 presidential elections, they were drawing upon a history as old as the United States...
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Expedition 336: Mid-Atlantic Ridge Flank Microbiology
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2011-12/atlantic-ridge
September – November 2011 This expedition examined the microbiology of a sediment pond and the underlying young, cold, and hydrologically active flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Type 2 diabetes could overwhelm NHS unless changes are made Leicester experts warn
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/type-2-diabetes-could-overwhelm-nhs-unless-changes-are-made-leicester-experts-warn
Melanie Davies CBE (pictured), a Professor of Diabetes Medicine at our University and the Leicester Diabetes Centre, has commented on the rise in people suffering from type 2 diabetes.
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Engineers contribute to creation of new ultra-high performance electric sports car
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/engineers-contribute-to-creation-of-new-ultra-high-performance-electric-sports-car
Engineers from our University have helped in the development of a new, ultra-high performance, range extended, electric sports car project - HIPERCAR.
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Leicester scientist lends expertise to new Jack the Ripper book
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-scientist-lends-expertise-to-new-jack-the-ripper-book
Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell is due to release Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert on 28 February, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder—and the police force that failed to solve it.
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Archaeology matters – ethics and politics in the contemporary world
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar7602
Module code: AR7602 What and where does archaeology run into ethical quandaries? What are the ethical commitments that archaeologists have? What are the political implications of this? In this module we explore how archaeology connects with the contemporary world.