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Lifting and Heaving An Easter Custom
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/lifting-and-heaving-an-easter-custom
Easter is a time where we typically gift one another chocolate rabbits, embark on intrepid Easter egg hunts - and some celebrate the religious significance of the occasion.
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New report demonstrates impact of programme preparing refugees for academic life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/report-impact-programme-preparing-refugees-academic-life
The RefugEAP Programme supports refugee-background students aspiring to university in developing their English for academic settings using a trauma-informed approach, run as a unique joint collaboration between the University of Leicester and the University of Leeds
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Project to investigate how offenders engage with treatment in different settings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/project-to-investigate-how-offenders-engage-with-treatment-in-different-settings
Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship that will investigate why offenders do and do not engage with treatment in prison, forensic hospital and community settings. As many as 86% of offenders do not successfully complete rehabilitation programmes.
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Leicester cited in Parliamentary debate on world-class impact of UK science
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/leicester-cited-in-parliamentary-debate-on-world-class-impact-of-uk-science
Our University has been cited for the world-class impact of its work in a Parliamentary debate on Treasury Support for UK Science.
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East Midlands pioneered health innovation shortlisted for national award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/east-midlands-pioneered-health-innovation-shortlisted-for-national-award
A ground-breaking intervention to improve junior doctors’ performance – designed in Leicester and developed in Lincolnshire – is attracting global interest and has been shortlisted for a prestigious award.
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Celebrating 35 years of DNA fingerprinting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-celebrating-35-years-of-dna-fingerprinting
A brand new interview with Sir Alec Jeffreys IW2oSGB-MaE|At 9.05am on Monday 10 September 1984, a discovery in a laboratory at the University of Leicester changed the way criminal investigations were carried out.
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Leicester academic secures grant to research technological advancements in UK energy system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-academic-secures-grant-to-research-technological-advancements-in-uk-energy-system
A researcher at the University has secured a grant worth £459,000 for a project which will explore the vast potential of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).
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Feedback on exam performance
https://le.ac.uk/policies/quality/feedback/exam-performance
The University successfully piloted the schemes in the 2013/14 academic year.
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Physics BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/physics-bsc/2026
Matter and energy. Waves and fields. Relativity and mechanics. In this degree, you’ll be studying the most fundamental of the sciences: physics.
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Researchers show bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/researchers-show-bacteriophages-can-affect-melioidosis-disease-acquisition
Researchers show bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition Researchers show bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition|An international research team including Leicester researchers has developed a mathematical model for monitoring and...