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Current view on origins of Parkinsons disease challenged by new findings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/current-view-on-origins-of-parkinson2019s-disease-challenged-by-new-findings
The neurodegeneration that occurs in Parkinson’s disease is a result of stress on the endoplasmic reticulum in the cell rather than failure of the mitochondria as previously thought, according to a study in fruit flies.
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Multi-million pound boost for University of Leicester’s ability to improve and save lives
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/brc-funding
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has been funded for £26 million over the next five years.
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Programme structure
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/wellcome-trust-dtp/programme-structure
Students on the programme will embark on a PhD project that fits under at least one of the programme themes.
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Clearing trip to see the University of Leicester changed Tom’s direction of study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/clearing-tom
When Tom Walters missed out on his first-choice university place, the next step should have seen him accept his reserve choice – until a visit to the University of Leicester during Clearing changed everything.
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Research to understand peatland policy ‘on the ground’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/peatlands
Postgraduate research at the University of Leicester is seeking to understand how peatland policy is implemented at a local level, gaining insights from NGOs, farmers, landowners, researchers, and policymakers
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Conceptualising Islands in History: Considering Bermuda and Gibraltar’s Prison Hulks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/03/08/conceptualising-islands-in-history-considering-bermuda-and-gibraltars-prison-hulks/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on March 8, 2016 By Anna McKay, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Student, National Maritime Museum & University of Leicester.
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‘A photographic revolutionary’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/11/21/a-photographic-revolutionary/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 21, 2014 ‘The Snow Garden’, P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson, ‘Marsh Leaves’, (London, 1895), pl. XII, SCM 08575. University of Leicester Special Collections.
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Economics BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/economics-bsc/2026
With this degree from Leicester’s School of Business, you’ll study the ideas and issues central to economics, across modules including macroeconomics, statistics and econometrics.
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Leicester archaeologists to offer hands on experience at British Science Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/bsf-skeletal-secrets
Members of the public will be able to get up close and personal with human bones with University of Leicester archaeologists this weekend.
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Areas of research
https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/material-worlds-past-present/areas-of-research
Browse our research projects to get an idea of what our interests and specialities are in the Centre for for Material Worlds Past and Present at the University of Leicester.