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• Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/

  Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...

• Checklist for international students

  https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/advice/checklist

  A checklist for our international students offering guidance on how to prepare for coming to the UK, with links to useful websites.

• 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...

• Consuming Authenticities: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 3

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/page/3/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Another award for Centre for Medicines sustainability credentials

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/another-award-for-centre-for-medicine2019s-sustainability-credentials

  Our landmark Centre for Medicine building has won the ProCon Leicestershire Awards Sustainable Development of the Year Award 2016.

• Aircraft keep tabs on the Amazons rising methane levels

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/greenhouse-gas-monitoring-aircraft-keep-tabs-on-the-amazon2019s-rising-methane-levels

  Research led by the National Centre of Earth Observation is going to new heights in the atmosphere to get a better handle on methane emitted from wetlands in the Amazon.

• A team of UK scientists have been monitoring the devastating smoke plume in Canada and North America

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/nceo-wildfire-monitoring

  A team of scientists from the National Centre for Earth Observation, based at the University of Leicester, has been monitoring the devastating plume of smoke which has travelled from Canada to parts of the North American east coast.

• Atelier Labs wins Falling Walls Engage 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/falling-walls-engage

  A project using art to empower young people with SEND to become researchers wins in the Science Engagement category of the international Falling Walls Engage awards.

• International Relations and World Order MA, PGDip, PGCert, by distance learning

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/international-relations-and-world-order-ma-dl/2026

  This is for you if... the flexibility of studying by distance learning whilst gaining a critical understanding of the nature and dynamics of international relations in the contemporary global system.

• Fellowships to support the creative economy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/fellowships-to-support-the-creative-economy

  Two AHRC Fellowships awarded to the University are to be undertaken in partnership with The Museums Association and Phoenix - Leicester’s centre for independent cinema, art and digital culture.