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Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...
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Work begins to transform Freemen’s Common
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-work-begins-freemens-common
Freemens A group of people on a construction site posing for a photo|The transformation of the Freemen’s Common area, at the University of Leicester, began today with a ground breaking ceremony.
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Long Covid researchers reflect on the PHOSP-COVID study 5 years on, ahead of Long Covid Awareness Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/long-covid-awareness-day-phosp
A study team from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) have been reflecting on their world leading research into Long Covid ahead of International Long Covid Awareness Day on Saturday, March 15 2025.
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September Book Group: Labels – The University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/09/28/september-book-group-labels/
Evelyn Waugh Book Group write up on Waugh's 1930 travel book, Labels.
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Who were the first students of the University of Leicester?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/10/13/who-were-our-first-students/
A blog post discussing the early students of the University of Leicester.
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First-in-the-family Leicester students front national university campaign
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/100-faces
Two trailblazing students who had their lives transformed by the University of Leicester have been chosen to front a national campaign promoting Higher Education.
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Dancing With Strangers: Body and Otherness in the Experience of Citizenship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/performingcitizenship/2015/12/15/dancing-with-strangers-body-and-otherness-in-the-experience-of-citizenship-by-rita-marcalo/
Posted by Maria Rovisco in Performing Citizenship on December 15, 2015 This post is authored by Rita Marcalo, dancer, choreographer and Artistic Director of Instant Dissidence , as a response to the Workshop ‘Arts and Citizenship’ held at the Department of Media and...
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Sounds in the silence of political exile
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/01/sounds-in-the-silence-of-political-exile/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on July 1, 2015 Sochaczewski placed himself right of the obelisk, standing My recent discovery of Alexander Sochaczewski’s painting, Farewell to Europe!, in the Museum Pawilon-X in Warsaw compelled me to think anew...
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Power and Difference in the Past
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar3089
Module code: AR3089 The past was not like the present. In this module we explore the different worlds of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain. We explore how power worked, the ways in which identity and personhood operated and how communities came together and broke apart.
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Power and Difference in the Past
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar3089
Module code: AR3089 The past was not like the present. In this module we explore the different worlds of Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain. We explore how power worked, the ways in which identity and personhood operated and how communities came together and broke apart.