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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...

• Year in industry with Deutsche Bank sets student Cybill Smith up for a career at Barclays

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/year-in-industry-with-deutsche-bank-sets-student-cybill-smith-up-for-a-career-at-barclays

  One of this week’s graduating students has expressed how pausing academic study, to spend a year working for Deutsche Bank, was an invaluable experience in terms of developing her professional skills and preparing her for the next step in her career.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/117/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Genetics and genealogy

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics

  More about the genealogical detective work involved in identifying King Richard III. Mitochondrial DNA and the Y-chromosome were used, after all these years, for the DNA identification purposes.

• Writing Prose Fiction

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3174

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• Writing Prose Fiction

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3174

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• Writing Prose Fiction

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/en3174

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• Talking statues

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/talking-statues

  Talking Statues was an innovative and novel project that used playwrights, actors and mobile technology to put words into the mouths of public statues.

• Highlights for the School of Politics and International Relations research in REF2021

  https://le.ac.uk/politics/ref2021

  The School of Politics & International Relations research highlights in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

• Top 25 for Earth Sciences research in REF2021

  https://le.ac.uk/gge/ref2021

  We are delighted with our recent performance in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021), in which we placed top 25 in the UK for our overall research quality (GPA) (according to analysis by the Times Higher Education).