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New intelligence distance learning degree launching at national conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/new-intelligence-distance-learning-degree-launching-at-national-conference
A Leicester intelligence expert will be launching a new distance-learning degree at a national meeting of leading intelligence professionals.
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New research finds singing at work reduces stress and loneliness
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/15-singing-work-reduces-stress-loneliness
New research led by Dr Catherine Steele and Joanna Foster from our Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour has revealed that belting out a tune in a choir at work can help to reduce workplace stress and feelings of social isolation.
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How medieval people named their animals is explored in new book
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/medieval-animal-names-books
The relationship between medieval people and their pets is the topic of the latest book by the University of Leicester’s Dr Ben Parsons. Introducing Medieval Animal Names explores what names medieval people gave to the animals with which they lived and worked.
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Different strokes for different folks: Two patient safety tales
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2016/04/27/different-strokes-for-different-folks-two-patient-safety-tales/
Liz Sutton, qualitative researcher with the SAPPHIRE group, describes the need for a more context driven view of patient safety from a personal perspective.
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University of Leicester academic takes leading role in major new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon England
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/anglo-saxon-exhibition
Anglo-Saxon exhibition King Edgar’s Charter for the New Minster, Winchester – British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII ff.
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The Geography of the Criminal Corpse: Magic, therapies and bodily pieces across Europe. By Francesca
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/01/19/francesca-matteoni-the-geography-of-the-criminal-corpse-magic-therapies-and-bodily-pieces-across-europe/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on January 19, 2016 I have been involved in the first two years of the project as a postdoctoral researcher working on the medico-magical employment of the criminal corpse’s pieces: hands, fingers,...
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Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3078
Module code: EN3078 An opportunity to read novels in translation which you have always wanted to read - Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina – this module examines the development of the realist novel in two very different contexts, Russia and France.
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Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3078
Module code: EN3078 An opportunity to read novels in translation which you have always wanted to read - Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina – this module examines the development of the realist novel in two very different contexts, Russia and France.
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Love and Death: The Novel in 19th Century Russia and France
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3078
Module code: EN3078 An opportunity to read novels in translation which you have always wanted to read - Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina – this module examines the development of the realist novel in two very different contexts, Russia and France.