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Martha’s Rule mum discovers how the University of Leicester believes reading and writing can boost medical students’ empathy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/marthas-rule-empathy-leicester
A patient safety campaigner whose daughter died following a hospital mistake has met with University of Leicester Medical students to find out how a book club is boosting their empathy
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Memoir explores complexities of discipline and bullying in UK schooling
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/a-physical-education
Dr Jonathan Taylor is set to release a new book, A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline & Other Lessons
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Criticality, objectivity and values-neutrality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/11/21/criticality-objectivity-and-values-neutrality/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 21, 2017 ‘While it is advisable to interrogate our research to see if we’re not engaging in wishful thinking and to make sure it is capable of acknowledging possible...
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Researchers explore ‘crossroads of the sea’ in Mediterranean
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/crossroads-of-the-sea
New archaeological research led by the University of Leicester is revealing secrets of ancient Mediterranean coastal life and long-distance trade, through exploring a ‘crossroads of the sea’.
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Declining local paper sales are a danger to democracy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/local-papers
Action needs to be taken to prevent a crisis for local democracy as a result of the dramatic decline in local press readership, a Leicester academic told BBC listeners this week.
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Past events
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/opportunities/past-events
Find out more about the events held in the Institute for Precision Health at Leicester.
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Creative Computing with Foundation Year BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/creative-computing-with-foundation-year-bsc/2026
Combine creativity and computing with our Creative Computing course. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study computing at Leicester, this STEM Foundation Year degree is your starting point.
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Drugs and Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/sy3090
Module code: SY3090 This module seeks to explore the core issues, debates and controversies surrounding the use of substances, commonly referred to by the pejorative term ‘drugs’, within contemporary society.
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Drugs and Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/sy3090
Module code: SY3090 This module seeks to explore the core issues, debates and controversies surrounding the use of substances, commonly referred to by the pejorative term ‘drugs’, within contemporary society.