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• Pokmon Go helps highlight Leicesters inventive approach to communications

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/pokemon-go-helps-to-highlight-leicesters-inventive-approach-to-communications

  The Pokémon Go craze has helped millions of people around the world to ease the Type 2 diabetes burden by walking and catching digital monsters. Now, the viral app has helped our University snag an accolade for its 'inventive' approach to communications.

• Expert comment Tony Blair is right Prime Ministers must be allowed to take difficult decisions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-comment-tony-blair-is-right-prime-ministers-must-be-allowed-to-take-difficult-decisions

  The Iraq war was a ‘catastrophic error’ and shows us that going to war should always be the last resort, according to Dr Robert Dover from the Department of Politics and International Relations.

• Reka Plugor

  https://le.ac.uk/people/reka-plugor

  The academic profile of Dr Réka Plugor, Associate Professor of Work and Employment at University of Leicester

• Spooky flower will bloom in time for Hallowe’en

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/botanic-garden

  The spookily-named Corpse Flower is about to bloom in the University’s Botanic Garden – just in time for Hallowe’en.

• What is oral history?

  https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/oral-history/what-is

  History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project. Find out how Oral History is defined and how it is useful for capturing stories, as a source of evidence and for investigating what people did and thought.

• Schools are key to raising aspirations for next generation of doctors

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/schools-are-key-to-raising-aspirations-for-next-generation-of-doctors

  Teachers and careers advisers are key to improving access to the medical profession for young people in some of the country’s most socially disadvantaged areas – but universities must reach out to give them the support that they need, says the new Head of our Medical School.

• Urine test is breakthrough for high blood pressure patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/urine-test-is-breakthrough-for-high-blood-pressure-patients

  A research team including Leicester scientists has shown that a urine test leads to a drop in blood pressure in patients who had been struggling to regularly take their blood pressure lowering tablets.

• Study shows regularly standing up helps prevent Type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/study-shows-standing-up-helps-prevent-type-2-diabetes

  Women who have an inactive daily routine and are at high risk of Type 2 diabetes can help prevent the condition by regularly standing up or walking for five minutes at a time, a new study has found.

• Contributing to care: Midwifery practice 2

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/mw2011

  Module code: MW2011 This module is facilitated by a combination of lectures, online learning packages, clinical skills/simulation workshops and clinical practice.

• Warfare, Conflict and Violence in the Human Past

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/ar3054

  Module code: AR3054 Warfare and other forms of conflict and violence are typical, if not universal, features of human societies.