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Call to avoid type 2 diabetes made during national campaign to prevent condition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/call-to-avoid-type-2-made-during-national-campaign-to-prevent-condition
A Leicester man with type 2 diabetes is urging people to do all they can to prevent being diagnosed with the condition which could potentially have “ruined his life”. Patrick Quinn was diagnosed with the condition that is usually associated with poor lifestyle in 2014.
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Henrik Melin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/author/hpm5/
Henrik Melin is a post-doc in the Radio and Space Plasma Physics group in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Leicester.
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Professor Gordon Campbell elected as fellow of Royal Society of Canada
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gordon-campbell-royal-society-of-canada-fellowship
Gordon Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. His election to what is the senior national council of Canadian scholars is his third recognition by an Academy.
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Events
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Decarbonisation net Zero target COP26 Steel Industry
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I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/03/23/im-not-angry-im-just-disappointed/
Posted by Daniela Rudloff in School of Business Blog on March 23, 2016 Okay, I lied. I’m angry and disappointed. I also feel tired, defeated and fed up. (Women, eh? Always with the multitasking.
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Geography at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/geography
Find out more about Geography at the University of Leicester. We research and teach across three core strands of the discipline - Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Geographic Information Science (GIS).
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English Football: a Social History MOOC
https://le.ac.uk/courses/mooc-english-football/2020
This is for you if... you want to find out more about the history, sociology and politics of football with a focus on Leicester City FC.
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Viking figurines were ‘more than just jewellery’, and were used and handled in a variety of ways, including long-term curation, 'decapitation', and attached to Christian artefacts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/viking-jewellery-mythology-silver-bronze
Senior author Dr Christina Tsoraki, of the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester adds, "By studying the wear of the 'valkyrie' pendants -- the valkyries being female mythological beings that would bring slain warriors from the battlefield to...
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Leicester businesses invited to join fully-funded summer internship scheme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/summer-internship
The University of Leicester is pleased to announce the launch of a new summer internship programme, designed to boost graduate employment in the regional economy. This fully-funded internship scheme is one in a series of projects to commemorate the University’s Centenary.
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Abolition and Adventure: Narratives of the Atlantic World
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en7254
Module code: EN7254 Accounts of global travel and adventure were extremely popular with eighteenth-century British readers.