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Engaging the digital generation in democracy: new insights presented by Leicester experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/digigen-conference
Research by University of Leicester explores how a digitally-literate younger generation becomes involved in politics through digital technology.
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Critical Geographies of Environment and Development
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy2411
Module code: GY2411 This module will build on your first year studies on issues of environment, society and globalisation. You'll be examining and analysing how ‘development’ is practised, and the ideas and theories underpinning this.
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Critical Geographies of Environment and Development
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/gy2411
Module code: GY2411 This module will build on your first year studies on issues of environment, society and globalisation. You'll be examining and analysing how ‘development’ is practised, and the ideas and theories underpinning this.
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Critical Geographies of Environment and Development
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy2411
Module code: GY2411 This module will build on your first year studies on issues of environment, society and globalisation. You'll be examining and analysing how ‘development’ is practised, and the ideas and theories underpinning this.
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Expert in infectious diseases to call for research improvements during epidemics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/expert-in-infectious-diseases-to-call-for-research-improvements-during-epidemics
The research response to epidemics has been slow and our attitude to carrying out research in the midst of infectious disease outbreaks needs to change, an expert in infectious diseases will argue at a lecture on 18 November.
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Archaeologists investigate threatened Cypriot site
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/archaeologists-to-investigate-threatened-cypriot-site
Leicester archaeologists are in a race against time to uncover the heritage of a threatened 1,500-year-old site on a Cyprus shoreline.
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Testing time for students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/testing-time-for-students-1
Students have been learning the skills they need to design and evaluate tests for use in schools and for examination boards.
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Landmark genetic study sheds new light on how the eye develops its sharpest vision
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/eye-genetic-study-foveal-leicester
Combining artificial intelligence and genetics has allowed researchers in Leicester to study the part of the eye that gives us sharp central vision in amazing detail for the first time
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Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells
A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.
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Researchers help map the route to a highly skilled digital future for museums
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/researchers-help-map-the-route-to-a-highly-skilled-digital-future-for-museums
Research from Leicester and Warwick will help to transform the ways UK museums use digital technologies to share their collections and engage new audiences with their work.