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Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester: The School of Criminology and S
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/page/2/
The School of Criminology and Sociology: follow us to find out who we are and what we do.
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PhD students
https://le.ac.uk/english/people/phd-students
Take a look at some of the PhD research currently being undertaken by postgraduate students in English at the University of Leicester.
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‘Fizzy pop’ process reveals copper-rich volcanoes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/volcano
Identifying magmas that experience the same process that makes fizzy drinks ‘bubbly’ has been used by a team of University of Leicester geologists to predict whether a volcano’s magma is likely to be rich in copper.
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Leicester link to Nobel Prize winners
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-link-to-nobel-prize-winners
In the latest announcement from the Nobel Prize committee, US academics Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University, Boston and Mike Young at Rockefeller University, New York, have received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of...
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Japanese Beginners Fast Track (Level 1)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/japanese/fast-track-level-1
Fast Track Japanese course for beginners at Leicester University
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Views of England and Wales: a new online collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/03/28/views-of-england-and-wales-a-new-online-collection/
Views of England and Wales is a new online collection hosted by the University of Leicester Library
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Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/tree-rings-increasing-rainfall-seasonality-amazon
Study involving University of Leicester researcher shows intensified seasonal cycles, with wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier, increasing the dangers of flooding and drought
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Convicts, Indigenous People and Labour
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/06/08/convicts-indigenous-people-labour/
Postgraduate Carceral Archipelago panel on "Convicts, Indigenous People and Labour"
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The Platform recordings – trains, planes, automobiles and volunteers.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/28/the-platform-recordings-trains-planes-automobiles-and-volunteers/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on January 28, 2020 In 1974 John Kirby and Geoff Smith started ‘Platform’, a BBC Radio Leicester series about transport.
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AboutUs
https://le.ac.uk/top-links-about-us
Leicester probably started as a Celtic settlement. It was the capital of the local Celtic tribe, the Coriletavi. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and they captured Leicestershire by 47 AD. The Romans built a fort at Leicester in 48 AD.