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Supporting student learning: the limits of genericism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/12/05/supporting-student-learning-the-limits-of-genericism/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on December 5, 2017 ‘Learning in higher education involves adapting to new ways of knowing: new ways of understanding, interpreting and organising knowledge.
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Findings
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/findings
Learn more about the findings from the dialect project between the University of Leicester and Nottingham Trent University, including more about phonology, lexis and grammar.
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Leicester experts contribute to international consortium helping patients with rare disease diagnosis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/rare-diseases
Experts from the University of Leicester have co-coordinated a European consortium of 300 researchers to help patients with unsolved rare diseases receive a diagnosis through new genetic reanalysis
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/publications
Articles published on the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain by key academics and researchers.
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Plantings
https://le.ac.uk/100-trees/plantings
Global celebration On 4 October 2021 we marked our 100th Birthday in a celebration which brought together our students, staff, partners, alumni, friends and supporters from all around the world.
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New research shows increasing numbers of people in England with a common mental health condition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/adult-psychiatric-survey-leicester
Figures from Part I of the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS), show an increase in poor mental health, up from 17.6% in 2007 to 22.6% in 2023/24 according to the University of Leicester
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£500,000 awarded to create new Deep Space Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/deep-space-centre
A new centre dedicated to the exploration of deep space is to be built at the Space Park Leicester site, after the Wolfson Foundation awarded a £500,000 grant towards the project.
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University of Leicester expert joins authors of United Nations climate change report
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/expert-author-united-nations-climate-change-report
Professor Valerio Lucarini from the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences is one of 664 international experts appointed by UN body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for its Seventh Assessment Report (AR7)
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Professor George Fraser
https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/meet-the-team/professor-george-fraser
George Fraser was born 22 July 1955 near Inverness and was a proud Highlander.
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His Honour David Brunning
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/david-brunning
The University has learned, with sadness, of the death of David Brunning, a former member of Council and life member of the University Court. David Brunning was born on 10 April 1943. He was a pupil at Burton upon Trent Grammar School.