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Contemporary Italian Fiction
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/it3136
Module code: IT3136 This module explores contemporary Italian fiction, focusing in particular on the interface between literature, place/landscape and photography.
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Environment, Society and Governance
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mn2116
Module code: MN2116 Corporate Social Responsibility has become an intrinsic part of business strategy. It's a broad term which may involve operational changes, innovation, customer and employee engagement and brand differentiation, amongst others.
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The Politics of Contemporary British Foreign Policy
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl3137
Module code: PL3137 Despite the loss of its global supremacy in the mid-1950s, the United Kingdom is still one of the world's great powers.
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Environment, Society and Governance
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/mn2116
Module code: MN2116 Corporate Social Responsibility has become an intrinsic part of business strategy. It's a broad term which may involve operational changes, innovation, customer and employee engagement and brand differentiation, amongst others.
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The Politics of Contemporary British Foreign Policy
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/pl3137
Module code: PL3137 Despite the loss of its global supremacy in the mid-1950s, the United Kingdom is still one of the world's great powers.
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Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/27/rest-in-pieces/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016 When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.
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Leicester scientists discover ‘Star Wars’ planet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/leicester-scientists-discover-star-wars-planet
Scientists from the University of Leicester has revealed for the first time that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings - similar to the planet Tatooine in Star Wars.
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Hive of activity how genes turn bees into workers and queens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/hive-of-activity-how-genes-turn-bees-into-workers-and-queens
Biologists have discovered that one of nature’s most important pollinators - the buff-tailed bumblebee – either ascends to the land of milk and honey by becoming a queen or remains a lowly worker bee based on which genes are ‘turned on’ during its lifespan.
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Music is in the genes University staff to play at charity gig
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/music-is-in-the-genes-university-staff-to-play-at-charity-gig
Staff from the Department of Genetics will be performing at a charity gig in aid of Parkinson’s UK. The Histones, who formed last year to celebrate the department’s 50th anniversary, will be appearing at the Shed in Leicester on Friday 26 June.
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Leicester academic Professor Mark Jobling to chart the evolution of individual identification at Galton Institute conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-academic-professor-mark-jobling-to-chart-the-evolution-of-individual-identification-at-galton-institute-conference
Professor Mark Jobling from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology will be giving a talk at the Galton Institute conference on 15 November - charting the evolution of individual identification from its earliest inception via fingerprints in 1892, through to the...