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Ecology, Climate and Land-use processes of the Amazon Tropical Forests
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy3440
Module code: GY3440 This module focusses on modern concepts in ecology and the connections between climate and land-use processes. The module aims to understand, quantify and predict the future of the Amazon forests in a changing world.
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Jayne Marshall
https://le.ac.uk/people/jayne-marshall
The academic profile of Professor Jayne Marshall, Head of Midwifery; Lead Midwife for Education; Deputy Head of School of Healthcare; School Director of Education at University of Leicester
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‘Long Walk to Freedom’: Leadership lessons from Madiba
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2019/03/26/long-walk-to-freedom-leadership-lessons-from-madiba/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on March 26, 2019 By Dunni Adeleye “I wanted first of all to tell the people that I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances” This is how...
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University supporting literacy skills through reading buddies and new books for schools
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/books
Volunteers from the University of Leicester have donated boxes full of brand-new books to local primary schools. It is part of a wider scheme that sees one hundred school-based volunteers support pupils at Uplands Junior L.E.A.
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Personalised treatment in B cell malignancies
https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/research/personalised-treatment-in-b-cell-malignancies
Research theme leads: Professor Martin Dyer; Dr Harriet Walter, Dr Matt Ahearne Thanks to the generous philanthropic support of The Scott-Waudby Charitable Trust, the University of Leicester has been able to establish the Haematological Research Theme which supports both...
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Beauty, Sex & Science: Whose Body is it Anyway c.1550-2015?
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3773
Module code: HS3773 A flourishing branch of cultural history that has become popular during the last two decades is the history of the body. Known as the ‘corporeal turn’ in cultural history, the focus in a history of the body entails much more than a narrow medical study.
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Cultural History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2235
Module code: HS2235 Module Outline As one of the pioneers of cultural history, Raymond Williams, once said “culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language”.
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Higher Doctorate candidate obligations and research conduct
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-9/appendix-2/obligation
(2)9.26 All students of the University, including higher doctorate candidates, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Senate, in respect both of their studies and their conduct.
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Increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with shorter height
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/increased-risk-of-coronary-heart-disease-could-be-associated-with-shorter-height
The shorter you are, the more your risk of coronary heart disease, according to a new study led by Professor Sir Nilesh Samani (pictured), British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology and Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences.
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The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3627
Module code: HS3627 This module explores the ways in which the civil rights movement emerged in the decades after the Second World War.