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Flaring star could be down to young planet’s disc inferno
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/planetary-disc-inferno
New simulations led by University of Leicester offer new explanation for star’s 85-year flare. In this scenario, a young giant planet is burning up very close to its star, suggesting solar systems may have hosted many of such planets that have since ‘evaporated’
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Applied Microeconomics
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/applied-microeconomics
Lead: Professor Sergio Currarini The research interests of the Applied Microeconomics group span a wide range of areas, including labour, public, health, education, development, political economy, behavioural, and experimental.
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Multi-million pound investment in UK space industry agreed in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/cgi-meteor-agreement
IT and business consulting firm CGI has pledged £2.6 million to the University of Leicester’s Manufacturing, Engineering, Technology and Earth Observation Research Centre (METEOR) over the next five years.
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Media, Culture and Society MA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/media-culture-and-society-ma/2026
This is for you if... you are interested in studying media, communication and sociology at an advanced level and learning from some of the leading researchers in this academic field.
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Biomedical Engineering MSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/biomedical-engineering-msc/2026
Transform lives through innovation. This degree blends engineering with life sciences to prepare you for developing technologies to improve health and wellbeing.
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Artificial Intelligence MSc, PGDip
https://le.ac.uk/courses/artificial-intelligence-msc/2025
Advance your computing skills with specialist knowledge in Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and data-driven systems – from foundational methods to generative AI in software development.
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Artificial Intelligence MSc, PGDip
https://le.ac.uk/courses/artificial-intelligence-msc/2026
Advance your computing skills with specialist knowledge in Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and data-driven systems – from foundational methods to generative AI in software development.
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Undergraduate courses
https://le.ac.uk/physics/study/undergraduate
Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester has one of the best staff-student ratios in the UK, a wide range of module choice, and the opportunity to be taught by academics who are passionately engaged in advancing their fields.
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Reflections on my Professional Fellowship: Part Two
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/08/14/reflections-on-my-professional-fellowship-part-two/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on August 14, 2025 In February 2024, I was awarded a Professional Fellowship from The National Archives and Research Libraries UK Professional Fellowship Scheme, 2024-2025.
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Islam: Religion or Politics?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2014/11/25/islam-religion-or-politics/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on November 25, 2014 Lately, I have been reading the work of Timothy Fitzgerald (University of Stirling, UK), a leading scholar of religion, particularly his thought-provoking book Discourse on Civility...