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Institutes and organisations
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/resources/institutes-organisations
Browse a list of institutes and organisations cultivated by the Stanley Burton Centre; essential for the study of the Holocaust and genocide.
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Motor City Stories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/motor-city-stories/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 Archivist Gary Collins explains how the digitisation of an audio collection is enabling its contents to be used in a variety of ways, including for Coventry City of Culture 2021.
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Insights into visual supersense provided by new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-researcher-gains-new-insights-into-human-visual-abilities
An experiment originally designed to test the visual abilities of octopuses and cuttlefish has provided researchers with new insights into a human supersense – the ability to perceive the polarisation of light.
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Better the Devil you know?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/08/30/better-the-devil-you-know/
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Researchers to explore the use of e-cigarettes by young people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/researchers-to-explore-the-use-of-e-cigarettes-by-young-people
A research team led by our University will be exploring how young people use e-cigarettes or ‘vape’ as part of a new project funded by Cancer Research UK entitled 'Adolescent Vaping Careers'.
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Postgraduate programmes
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/study/postgraduate-programmes
Available degrees The Centre for Urban History offers Masters in Urban Conservation (accredited by hr Institute for Historic Building Conservation) and in Urban History (as a pathway of MA History). You can also study for a Masters by Research or PhD/MPhil.
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Research finds Earths technosphere now weighs 30 trillion tons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-finds-earths-2018technosphere2019-now-weighs-30-trillion-tons
An international team led by our geologists has made the first estimate of the sheer size of the physical structure of the planet’s technosphere – suggesting that its mass approximates to an enormous 30 trillion tons.
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College of Life Sciences Imaging Steering group
https://le.ac.uk/cbs/facilities/imaging-steering
The University of Leicester Imaging Steering group oversees the use and maintenance of current imaging equipment within the College of Life Sciences as well as investigating the potential to acquire new equipment that will enhance world-leading research.
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Advancing the protection of migrants human rights
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/advancing-the-protection-of-migrants2019-human-rights
Leicester Law School lecturer Alan Desmond has recently edited an international collaborative book on the UN Migrant Workers Convention and its potential to advance the protection of migrants’ human rights.
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School of English Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester