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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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Project to help reduce unsafe abortion death rates in disaster zones
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/project-to-help-reduce-unsafe-abortion-death-rates-in-disaster-zones
New research led by Dr Nibedita S Ray-Bennett from the School of Management will look into the sexual and reproductive health issues in disaster-prone areas during times of humanitarian crisis.
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Infants under 12 months most at risk of physical abuse
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/infants-under-12-months-most-at-risk-of-physical-abuse
Research co-authored by a Professor from our University has found infants under the age of 12 months are most at risk of serious physical abuse. The large study of severely injured children is published online in Emergency Medicine Journal.
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Archaeology: The Essentials
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1007
Module code: AR1007 What is an archaeologist? Where does the discipline of Archaeology come from and how is it organised? What techniques do we use to identify traces of past social life? How do we recover those traces through survey and excavation? How...
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Archaeology CE
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1604
Module code: AR1604 In this module you will learn about cultures that shaped the world we live in.
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Archaeology of Islamic Societies
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar3088
Module code: AR3088 Who are the Muslims and what is their history? Is there an ‘Islamic’ culture, or indeed more than one? What is the place of the history of Islam in everybody’s history? How can archaeologists study Islamic societies? Islam originated in...
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Theory in Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2029
Module code: AR2029 What kinds of critical tools are out there to help us understand the past? What was gender like in the past? How are politics and the past entwined? How was the past different from the present? How does archaeology make us think...
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The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3027
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International Security
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl7505
Module code: PL7505 Issues of security and insecurity are central to international relations, as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq War of 2003 underline.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/cls/research
Our research in the College of Life Sciences at Leicester is world-leading, covering the breadth of biological sciences through to clinical specialities and health sciences.