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Study finds accuracy of sexual assault testimonies is not affected by alcohol intoxication
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/study-finds-accuracy-of-sexual-assault-testimonies-is-not-affected-by-alcohol-intoxication
People are often concerned about the accuracy of testimony given by victims who were intoxicated during a sexual assault – but a new study by Leicester researchers has found that while alcohol intoxicated participants report fewer pieces of information about an assault,...
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Double award for University academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/double-award-for-university-academic
An academic from the University is to receive an award for his contribution to language testing and educational assessment at an international conference in Italy.
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How we’ve answered an urgent Government call for help in COVID-19 fight
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/03-call-for-help
Staff and postdoctoral students from the University’s College of Life Sciences have answered an urgent call to action from central Government.
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Activities and events
https://le.ac.uk/colonial-countryside/activities-events
Learn what we have done so far within the Colonial Countryside project and what we plan on doing in the future. Get more information on the events we have held and if there are any coming up.
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First-in-the-family Leicester students front national university campaign
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/100-faces
Two trailblazing students who had their lives transformed by the University of Leicester have been chosen to front a national campaign promoting Higher Education.
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The Structure of English
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ed7503
Module code: ED7503 This module will introduce you to the formal description of English grammar and phonology, based on pedagogic as well as descriptive models.
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History of the English Language
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en1040
Module code: EN1040 This module will provide an introduction to the study of the English language, covering variation and change in its development since the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Leicester ranked in Europe’s top 100 innovative universities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-reuters-top-100
The University of Leicester is ranked 76th in Reuters Europe’s Most Innovative Universities Ranking, equivalent to 16th in the UK.
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Nursing student shortlisted for two prestigious awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/bethan-jones
Nursing student Bethan Jones is up for two prestigious awards
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Do hate speech detectors discriminate against African Americans?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/23/do-hate-speech-detectors-discriminate-against-african-americans/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2019 Shocking article on arXiv.org from the at the Annual Meeting for the Association for Computational Linguistics 2019.