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Demonstrating proficiency: Midwifery practice 4
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mw4011
Module code: MW4011 This module is facilitated by a combination of lectures, online learning packages, clinical skills/simulation workshops and clinical practice and is where you will learn to provide universal and additional midwifery and neonatal care in partnership with...
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Planetary Materials
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/planetary-science/planetary-materials
We study the evolution of Mars through a combination of mission involvement and analysing martian meteorites. Our research aims include to understand the nature of water-rock reaction in the martian crust and compositional differentiation of the lithosphere.
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Leicester research makes Altmetric Top 100 list for 2015
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/leicester-research-makes-altmetric-top-100-list-for-2015
Three research projects involving Leicester academics have featured in the Altmetric 2015 Top 100, which recognises the most shared and discussed academic research of the year worldwide.
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Device found to lower blood pressure
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/device-found-to-lower-blood-pressure
A revolutionary device has been shown to significantly lower blood pressure among patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure, compared to those treated with usual drug measures – according to research involving the University and published in The Lancet.
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Return To Larkinland to explore poets time in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/return-to-larkinland-to-explore-poets-time-in-leicester
To celebrate National Poetry Day, and to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Philip Larkin, writer and critic AN Wilson will be revisiting the life and work of one of the greatest English poets of the 20th century - Philip Larkin - in Return To Larkinland.
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Another Doctoral Grant success for School of Education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/another-doctoral-grant-success-for-school-of-education-phd-student
Keke Zhang of the School of Education has been awarded a 2015 TOEFL Doctoral Research Grant for her research into the development and validation of a rating scale for assessing argumentative essays written by Chinese undergraduates in English programmes.
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Childrens purchasing behaviour significantly impacted by social media and mobile apps research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/children2019s-purchasing-behaviour-2018significantly-impacted2019-by-social-media-and-mobile-apps-research-shows
Exposure to prompts to make in-app purchases in mobile games has a significant impact on children’s purchasing behaviour, according to a recent study funded by the European Commission involving Dr Giuseppe Veltri, who now works at the Department of Media Communication.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 7 13 January
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-7-13-january
In an article for University Business, Professor Paul Boyle, President and Vice-Chancellor, reflects on his first year in post and ambitious plans for the future.
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Local charity donates equipment to diabetes centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/local-charity-donates-equipment-to-diabetes-centre
A charity has donated a state-of-the-art treadmill to the Leicester Diabetes Research centre to help progress research into the condition.
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Leicester academics message to returning British astronaut Tim Peake
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-academics2019-message-to-returning-british-astronaut-tim-peake
Space scientists from our University have praised the successful completion of British astronaut Tim Peake’s six month mission aboard the International Space Station.