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Applied Linguistics MOOC
https://le.ac.uk/courses/mooc-applied-linguistics/2020
Language teachers, forensic linguistics, speech therapists and translators all work within the realm of applied linguistics. If you’re a lover of language, and want to know more about how it functions in our everyday lives, this online course is for you.
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University involved in project to help children with asthma
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-involved-in-project-to-help-children-with-asthma
Owlstone Medical, a diagnostics company, has announced it has developed and received CE mark approval for a paediatric version of the company’s disease breathalyzer, ReCIVA™, which is now being used in EMBER (the East Midlands Breathomics Pathology Node).
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Attenborough Arts Centre to host exhibitions by Claude Cahun and UK debut of Laura Swanson
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/attenborough-arts-centre-to-host-exhibitions-by-claude-cahun-and-uk-debut-of-laura-swanson
Our Attenborough Arts Centre will be the first venue in the UK to present a solo exhibition by American artist Laura Swanson, alongside the Hayward Touring exhibition of photography by gender-defying artist Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954).
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Californian Drylands
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3091
Module code: GY3091 The centrepiece of this module is a ten-day field trip to the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, which will give you first-hand knowledge and experience of a dryland environment and a solid background in dryland geomorphology.
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HeForShe celebrates two years of movement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/heforshe-celebrates-two-years-of-movement
To mark the second anniversary of UN Women’s HeForShe movement, world leaders, change-makers, activists and celebrities will unite at a special event hosted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City later this evening.
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Net Children Go Mobile Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/net-children-go-mobile-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 http://www.netchildrengomobile.eu/ A new project funded by the Safer Internet Programme of the European Commission has been launched.
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How many times a day do you check your phone?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/how-many-times-a-day-do-you-check-your-phone/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 According to the latest Ofcom communications report people in the UK now check their smartphones, on average, every 12 minutes of the waking day.
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How much time do students spend studying?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/01/how-much-time-do-students-spend-studying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2019 The 2019 engagement survey by AdvanceHE records a decline since 2016 in the proportion of students spending 11 hours or more per week in taught classes and/or independent learning;...
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Historian to speak at Holocaust events
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/historian-to-speak-at-holocaust-events
The Holocaust and its legacy will be explored at three events in the city and county Professor Aubrey Newman, Emeritus Professor in the School of History.
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Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image out now
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/monkey-to-man
One of the most iconic depictions of evolution, the “march of progress”, will be explored for the first time in a new book by a University of Leicester academic.