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Spring seminar series 2011
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2011
Browse our 2011 spring seminar series in the Victorian Studies Centre.
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Sleepout to support Leicesters homeless
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/sleep-out-to-support-leicester2019s-homeless
Staff and student volunteers will be wrapping up and bracing themselves for a night out in the elements in order to raise awareness of homelessness and the reality of ‘sleeping rough’.
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How do we put the ‘Public Health’ into Violence Reduction?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/09/28/how-do-we-put-the-public-health-into-violence-reduction/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on September 28, 2023 Matt Hopkins – Associate Professor and Violence Hub Lead, Centre for Hate Studies Public health approaches to violence reduction are very much in vogue.
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Mapping the City with Electric Paint
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/12/12/mapping-the-city-with-electric-paint/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on December 12, 2022 In 2019 I attended an Oral History Society networker event at the British Library and was impressed with work that the Library had done with students from the Royal College of Art School of Communication .
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Incunabula in Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/04/10/incunabula-in-special-collections/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 10, 2014 For a University the size and age of Leicester the Library has a surprising rich collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501).
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Pre-clinical models enabling drug and biomarker discovery
https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/research/pre-clinical-models-enabling-drug-and-biomarker-discovery
Research theme leads: Professor Catrin Pritchard and Dr Gareth Miles Academic research theme members: Professor Karen Brown Professor Martin Dyer Dr Sam Khan Dr Esther Moss Dr Alessandro Rufini Dr Cristina Tufarelli The Explant...
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Postgraduate programmes
https://le.ac.uk/biological-sciences/study/postgraduate
The University of Leicester's College of Life Sciences offers a range of postgraduate programmes in Biological Sciences, including areas like Bioinformatics, Forensics and Cancer. Find out more about these postgraduate programmes.
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Prehistoric penis worms shed light on ocean ecology half a billion years ago
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/prehistoric-2018penis-worms2019-shed-light-on-ocean-ecology-half-a-billion-years-ago
Dr Tom Harvey from the Department of Geology has been involved in a study along with researchers at the University of Cambridge into Ottoia, a type of phallic-shaped ‘penis worm’ – and has helped to identify that the creature used a bizarre set of teeth to drag itself across...
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EU at ‘critical point’ as Germany searches for Merkel successor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/eu-merkel
A leading economist has warned that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor will have ‘big shoes to fill’ on the European stage, after describing her as ‘the continuity of Europe’.
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First clinical review confirms BAME and COVID-19 link
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/bame-covid-clinical-review
Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) individuals are at an increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and adverse clinical outcomes, according to the first comprehensive systematic and review of published and unpublished data conducted by researchers at the University of...