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• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/159/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Reframing difference and disability

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/reframing-difference-and-disability

  Collaborative research projects about societal attitudes towards disability and difference.

• Effectiveness of ‘smart’ inhalers in preventing COPD flare ups is focus of new study

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

  A new study that will monitor patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from the comfort of their own homes, using inhalers with digital sensors and a mobile app, has signed up 42 patients.

• First cohort studying Apollo-Leicester university course find out more about life and learning in the UK

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/first-cohort-studying-apollo-leicester-university-uk

  The first cohort of students in India on a degree which will see them split their studies between the University of Leicester and the subcontinent have been given a taste of studying and living in the UK.

• Global study identifies a safer treatment of acute stroke

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/global-study-identifies-a-safer-treatment-of-acute-stroke

  The safety of a controversial clot-busting drug has been investigated by researchers, who have shown a modified dosage can reduce serious bleeding in the brain and improve survival rates.

• Viking figurines were ‘more than just jewellery’, and were used and handled in a variety of ways, including long-term curation, 'decapitation', and attached to Christian artefacts 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/viking-jewellery-mythology-silver-bronze

  Senior author Dr Christina Tsoraki, of the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester adds, "By studying the wear of the 'valkyrie' pendants -- the valkyries being female mythological beings that would bring slain warriors from the battlefield to...

• 800000 project investigates the human cost of war

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/ps800-000-project-investigates-the-human-cost-of-war

  The human cost of civil wars is to be investigated in a four-year project entitled 'Welfare, Conflict and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars,1642-1700’ funded by a major grant of over £800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

• Study shows slow walking pace is good predictor of heart-related deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/study-shows-slow-walking-pace-good-predictor-of-heart-related-deaths

  A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University - has concluded that middle-aged people who report that they are slow walkers could be at higher risk...

• Suggested reading

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/undergraduate/suggested-reading

  Read Renfrew and Bahn: Archaeology: theories, methods and practice Alcock and Osborne: Classical Archaeology Watch Archaeology at the BBC - A collection of programmes charting the BBC's first ventures into archaeology programming.

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  The School of English at the University of Leicester is among the best English departments in the country. Our undergraduates follow a challenging programme of modules covering literature and language from before the Norman Conquest to the present day.