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• Designing for Creative Lives

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mu7006

  Module code: MU7006 Designing for Creative Lives addresses how museum-making can bring together the social and the spatial to drive inclusive organisational transformation and open new possibilities for publics, communities, museum workers and wider social change.

• Contested Desires Constructive Dialogues

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/contested-desires-constructive-dialogues

  Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues (CDCD) is a three-year arts and heritage programme, co-funded by the EU Creative Europe, engaging artists to examine European colonialism’s legacy in museums and heritage sites.

• Largest archaeological excavation in Leicester in over a decade open to public

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/largest-archaeological-excavation-in-leicester-in-over-a-decade-open-to-public

  Members of the public are invited to learn more about Leicester's Roman past as the city's largest excavation site in over 10 years is open to visitors on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May.

• girl.boy.child

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/girl-boy-child

  The performances will shine a light on many National Trust properties’ lesser known LGBTQ histories.

• Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/23-enderby-iron-age-bark-shield

  A unique bark shield from the Iron Age has been discovered by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, the only one of its kind ever found in Europe.

• Large-scale study suggests under 45s and women more likely to gain weight and jump a BMI category during COVID-19 lockdown

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/covid-bmi

  A large-scale study of almost a million UK adults led by Leicester researchers has revealed that under 45s and women were more likely to gain weight and jump a body mass index (BMI) category during COVID-19 lockdown.

• 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...

• Telling the story of Leicestershire’s first university

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/17-gordon-campbell-lecture

  Professor Gordon Campbell is delivering a lecture on the history of the University of Leicester.

• Books connect 2

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/books-connect-2

  Led by public libraries, Books Connect 2 demonstrates how books and reading can inspire innovative ways for libraries, museums and archives to work in partnership with the arts to develop new audiences and new venues for reading inspired creativity.

• Practice

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/mu7009

  Module code: MU7009 Practice is an eight-week full-time professional placement (July-August) which is supported by a Career Development Programme running concurrently with the taught curriculum.