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Using portable nanopore DNA sequencers to combat wildlife crime
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/using-portable-nanopore-dna-sequencers-to-combat-wildlife-crime
A team from our University has been awarded a prize for their proposal to crack down on wildlife crime using a portable DNA sequencing device, the MinION - developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies - to read the ‘barcode genes’ of animals affected by illegal trafficking.
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Human fingerprint on forest disturbance patterns as viewed from space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/forest-structures
A team of researchers from the UK and Europe used remote sensing data to describe the landscape structure of forest disturbances and assess how these differ across regions and under human influence
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Staff and students team up for Go Green Week
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/staff-and-students-team-up-for-go-green-week
As part of the Environment Team’s Sustainable Development Programme, students have been asked to put on their eco hats and work on a number of environment and sustainability projects. Go Green Week is the culmination of many of those projects.
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Dialect
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect
A research project conducted by researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the Univeristy of Leicester aimed to find differences in regional dialects in the East Midlands over the past century. Learn more.
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American Literature in the Twenties and Thirties
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en1005
Module code: EN1005 This module explores American fiction and poetry of the 1920s and 1930s, an era that encompasses the aftermath of the First World War, the 'Jazz Age', the Wall Street Crash and the Depression.
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American Literature in the Twenties and Thirties
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en1005
Module code: EN1005 This module explores American fiction and poetry of the 1920s and 1930s, an era that encompasses the aftermath of the First World War, the 'Jazz Age', the Wall Street Crash and the Depression.
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American Literature in the Twenties and Thirties
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en1005
Module code: EN1005 This module explores American fiction and poetry of the 1920s and 1930s, an era that encompasses the aftermath of the First World War, the 'Jazz Age', the Wall Street Crash and the Depression.
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The Diary of a Dissection: Jane Jamieson and the Newcastle Barber Surgeons. By Patrick Low
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/09/19/diary-of-a-dissection/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on September 19, 2016 The recent furore in France, over the wearing of Burkinis, has shone a new light on an age-old societal problem; the female body.
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Political Ideas
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl2011
Module code: PL2011 Where do political ideas come from? What are the key concepts and developments behind the most important theories of our time? How do the original texts line up with academic literature? You'll explore these issues, and many others, in this module.
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Political Ideas
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/pl2011
Module code: PL2011 Where do political ideas come from? What are the key concepts and developments behind the most important theories of our time? How do the original texts line up with academic literature? You'll explore these issues, and many others, in this module.