Search

21073 results for: ‘%s’

• The Politics of Conflict and Violence MA, PGDip, PGCert, by distance learning

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/the-politics-of-conflict-and-violence-ma-dl/2025

  How do politics dictate war and peace? How has conflict shaped politics? What can we do about humanitarian intervention? This distance learning degree isn’t just about asking the critical questions – it’s about making critical progress.

• The Politics of Conflict and Violence MA, PGDip, PGCert, by distance learning

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/the-politics-of-conflict-and-violence-ma-dl/2026

  How do politics dictate war and peace? How has conflict shaped politics? What can we do about humanitarian intervention? This distance learning degree isn’t just about asking the critical questions – it’s about making critical progress.

• Leicestershire employers learn best practice at environmental pollution event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/mattioli-woods

  Leicestershire industry and business leaders learnt about the increasing danger of everyday atmospheric pollution at a University of Leicester event.

• Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study

  A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges

• Unruly bodies and minds in the medical museum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/unruly-bodies-and-minds-in-the-medical-museum

  Following Mat Fraser’s astonishing and award-winning commission Cabinet of Curiosities that toured UK museums in 2015, Exceptional & Extraordinary is inviting four artists to explore behind the scenes of eight of the UK’s most renowned medical museums.

• Special comedy event and animated film in honour of playwright and provocateur Joe Orton

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/special-comedy-event-and-animated-film-in-honour-of-playwright-and-provocateur-joe-orton

  To mark 50 years since the death of Joe Orton, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Chris Shepherd is collaborating with Dr Emma Parker from our School of Arts on an Arts Council-funded project inspired by prank letters of complaint that Orton penned using the pseudonym Mrs Edna Welthorpe.

• Leicester expert provides research to House of Commons on homophobia in sport

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-expert-provides-research-to-house-of-commons-on-homophobia-in-sport

  A University expert from the Department of Media, Communications and Sociology has given evidence to a House of Commons Select Committee as part of efforts to address homophobia in sport.

• Putting satellite data in farmers’ hands to improve food security

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/farming-earth-observation

  PhD project at University of Leicester aims to get more farmers in Kenya and the UK using Earth Observation (E.O) data, allowing them to plan better for extreme weather, boosting climate resilience and food security

• Public lecture on Myanmar and museums

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/06-myanmar-lecture

  The effect of displacement in Myanmar on material objects is the subject of a public lecture at the University of Leicester on Tuesday 18 February.

• The solvents solving our gold challenges

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/the-solvents-solving-our-gold-challenges

  Work in our Departments of Geology and Chemistry to develop safer and greener ways to process gold has been featured on the BBC World Service’s Science Hour (from 44m).