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• North Africa in Late Antiquity

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah3020

  Module code: AH3020 What changes took place in Africa in the last years of the Roman occupation? Why did the monks of Egypt turn to the desert to express their devotion? How did the Vandals establish a new kingdom in Carthage? Why was Augustine so obsessed...

• What is a professional doctorate?

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/what-they-are/prof-doctorate

  Professional doctorates are equivalent to a PhD but have a focus on a specific professional context, such as social science, medicine or psychology.

• Student research project hopes to help tackle undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/student-research-project-hopes-to-help-tackle-undernutrition-in-sub-saharan-africa

  Exchange students studying on the University of Leicester’s Natural Sciences programme have been involved in a research project investigate major public health concerns in developing nations, including sub-Saharan Africa.

• Importance of empathy

  https://le.ac.uk/empathy/about/importance

  Empathic care improves patient experience and satisfaction, health outcomes and practitioner wellbeing. Amongst other things, it can reduce pain and therefore medication use, and reduce the number – and length – of hospital admissions.

• Visions of Hell: The Fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3184

  Module code: EN3184 Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, major (and popular) twentieth-century novelists, were both Catholic converts. She came from a half-Jewish working-class Edinburgh home, he from the Hampstead literati.

• Zainab Mai-bornu

  https://le.ac.uk/people/zainab-mai-bornu

  The academic profile of Dr Zainab Mai-bornu, Lecturer in International Politics at University of Leicester

• Greater empathy reduces problems with patient care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/howick

  Greater levels of compassion from hospital and clinical staff can reduce persistent problems with patient care says a University expert in empathy

• Students called upon to help tackle gender and sexual violence on university campuses worldwide

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/students-called-upon-to-help-tackle-gender-and-sexual-violence-on-university-campuses-worldwide

  Our University is harnessing the insight and experience of its students in a bid to stamp out sexual and gender-based violence on university campuses worldwide.

• Cutting edge Nottingham company welcomes University of Leicester chemistry alumnus to its R&D team

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/promethean-chemistry-alumnus

  University of Leicester chemistry graduate Kale Cooke has joined a spin-out company tackling global issues associated with climate change with sustainable chemistry

• Leicester academic speaks at UCLA symposium on race and human rights

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/13-symposium-ucla-race-human-rights

  The University of Leicester was represented by Dr Vidya Kumar, Associate Professor of Law at Leicester Law School, at a symposium titled ‘Critical Perspectives on Race and Human Rights: Transnational Re-Imaginings’, held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on...