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Study suggests seated upper body physical activity can reduce risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes made worse by sitting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/study-suggests-seated-upper-body-physical-activity-can-reduce-risk-of-heart-disease-and-type-2-diabetes-made-worse-by-sitting
A new study conducted at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), including researchers from our University, has found that breaking up prolonged bouts of restful sitting with short, frequent bouts of simple seated arm exercises can benefit obese patients at high...
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Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-society-ernest-rutherford-from-kiwi-farm-boy-to-president-of-the-royal-society/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.
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Guru Nanak Sikh collection
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/all/guru-nanak-sikh
The Guru Nanak Sikh Museum collection contains three interviews (two in Punjabi, one in English) which document the lives of members of the Sikh community in Leicester. Get more information about the collection.
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Dr Delia Garratt
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/people/delia-garrett
Dr Delia Garratt did her first degree at the University of Leicester in History, before proceeding to a PhD on aspects of 19th-century Methodism, supervised by Professor Keith Snell.
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Outreach
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/outreach
Through our outreach programmes, we promote our world-class research in archaeology and ancient history for the benefit of a wide audience.
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Cultural Management and Marketing
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mu7573
Module code: MU7573 This module will teach you to: Develop a critical understanding of management and marketing approaches applied to a range of international cultural heritage and museum contexts.
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Cultural Management and Marketing
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mu7573
Module code: MU7573 This module will teach you to: Develop a critical understanding of management and marketing approaches applied to a range of international cultural heritage and museum contexts.
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Cultural Management and Marketing
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mu7573
Module code: MU7573 This module will teach you to: Develop a critical understanding of management and marketing approaches applied to a range of international cultural heritage and museum contexts.
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Winners of Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 announced
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/winners-of-festival-of-postgraduate-research-2015-announced
The winners of the Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 have been announced. During the Festival our University gets to showcase the best of its research student talent and this year the standard of entries was very high.
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Free online course to tackle ethically unsound research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/free-online-course-to-tackle-ethically-unsound-research
A free online course offered by our University and aimed at aspiring academics hopes to help tackle issues surrounding ethically unsound research.