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Leicester researchers identify ethnic disparities in accessing continuous glucose monitors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/ethnic-disparities-glucose-monitoring-leicester
People from Afro-Caribbean and South Asian backgrounds are less likely to be prescribed “life-changing” diabetes technology compared to White individuals, a new study by the University of Leicester has reported
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Discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/discovery-sheds-light-on-how-vertebrates-see
New research led by Professor Sarah Gabbott from the Department of Geology has overturned a long-standing theory on how vertebrates evolved their eyes by identifying remarkable details of the retina in the eyes of 300 million year-old lamprey and hagfish fossils.
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EAP Teacher Development Programme
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/courses-for-teachers/eap
EAP Teacher's course offered to teachers by the ELTU.
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Seed Library
https://le.ac.uk/library/get-involved/seed-library
Working with Leicester City Council and The Conservation Volunteers, we're giving away free packets of seeds to library users, encouraging people to start growing fresh, tasty, healthy veg at home.
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University shortlisted in Royal College of Midwives awards for excellence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/rcm-awards
The University of Leicester has been shortlisted in three categories for the prestigious Royal College of Midwives (RCM) Awards 2023
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Leicester criminologists working with Government to explore motivations behind acid attacks
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-criminologists-working-with-government-to-explore-motivations-behind-acid-attacks
Researchers from our Department of Criminology have launched a major research project, commissioned by the Home Office, into the motivations of offenders who carry and use acid in violent attacks.
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Careers in the Science and Mathematics sector (including Medical and Pharmaceutical)
https://le.ac.uk/career-development-service/recruitment-fairs/employment-sector/science-and-mathematics
Careers directly related to Chemistry Analytical Chemist Chemical Engineer (with further qualifications) Data Scientist Forensic Scientist Healthcare Communications Healthcare Scientist Medical Sales Quality...
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The destruction of Old St Paul’s
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/01/the-destruction-of-old-st-pauls/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 1, 2016 350 years ago this month, during the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, the Great Fire of London, which had broken out in the Pudding Lane bakery of Thomas Farynor, began to spread with...
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Highlights from our postgraduate research community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/highlights-from-our-postgraduate-research-community
The Graduate School has announced the publication of the second Issue of Frontier, the postgraduate research magazine for and by postgraduate students of the University of Leicester.
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Leading scientists takeover Leicester pubs for Pint of Science festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/pint-of-science
Pub goers in Leicester will get much more than just a pint next week when some of Britain’s leading Scientists head to the city’s drinking venues to discuss their latest research. The ‘Pint of Science’ festival runs from 9th-11th May.