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New Centre highlights research into creativity social justice and inequality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-centre-highlights-research-into-creativity-social-justice-and-inequality
A new research Centre focusing on issues of social injustice both locally and globally is being formed by academics in the Department of Geography.
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Charity Status
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/documents/charity-status
See the details of our status as an exempt charity within the meaning of Schedule 2 of the Charities Act 1993.
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss over the last 11000 years shown in new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-loss-over-the-last-11-000-years-shown-in-new-study
An international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and involving our University has shown that wind-driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.
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Portable devices monitor air pollution hotspots in cities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/portable-devices-monitor-pollution-hotspots-in-cities
Scientists at our University are trialling a portable air monitor to gather precise air pollution data at a personal scale in order to help monitor pollution hotspots.
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Ethnic differences in need for heart pacemakers may have genetic link
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/ethnic-differences-in-need-for-heart-pacemakers-may-have-genetic-link
Researchers have found evidence to show that South Asian people (from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) are less likely to require a pacemaker for an abnormally low heart rate compared to white people of European origin.
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Dawn of the Anthropocene concept
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/dawn-of-the-anthropocene-concept
Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely available for the first time with the first full English translation of Buffon’s concise masterpiece The Epochs of Nature,...
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Leicester study highlights appeal of hybrid working to University staff
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/hybrid-working
Research at the University of Leicester has revealed the popularity of hybrid working amongst university staff.
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French Conversation Intermediate B1+
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/french/french-conversation-intermediate
Spanish Conversational Course at Leicester University
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East Midlands Universities unite in support for Armed Forces Covenant
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/07-armed-forces
Representatives from all nine universities in the East Midlands gathered at the University of Leicester on Friday to re-sign the Armed Forces Covenant.
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Myths and facts
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/about/myths-and-facts
Find out the facts relating to the myths of using animals in research and experiments.