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Wildfires across the Americas have been supercharged by climate change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/wildfires-americas-supercharged-climate-change
Study: Warming increased burning in Pantanal, Chiquitano and Amazon, releasing billions of tonnes of CO2, while climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s deadly fires by at least 2-3 times
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UK Disability History Month 2022: Uncovering the history of the Fielding Johnson Building
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/11/24/uk-disability-history-month-2022-uncovering-the-history-of-the-fielding-johnson-building/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library and Learning Services on November 24, 2022 16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month , an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of the rights and dignity of disabled people.
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Festive stories from Leicesters past
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/festive-christmas-stories-from-leicesters-past
Christmas is coming and the geese are getting fat, so the popular rhyme goes - although for many it will be a plump turkey sitting upon the table during Christmas lunch.
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New drugs to prevent tuberculosis could be developed thanks to this novel cell wall breakthrough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/3-cell-wall-breakthrough
Hero tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosisis|Research has identified a novel regulatory mechanism, which when deactivated, results in the death of the life-threatening pathogen.
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Turkey
https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/countries/europe/turkey
We welcome students from Turkey. Find out about entry requirements, the Turkish student community and other country-specific information.
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Physics and Astronomy Blog: Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/page/22/
Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
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£1.2 million funding to investigate mental health legacy of colonialism in Guyana’s jails
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-mental-health-legacy-of-colonialism-in-guyanas-jails
Funding for University of Leicester project announced under the ESRC-AHRC GCRF Mental Health 2017 Call
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On multi-sited research and mono-sited (nationalist) memory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/05/26/on-multi-sited-research-and-mono-sited-nationalist-memory/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on May 26, 2015 Addressing convict transportation – the key feature in the Carceral Archipelago project – implies multi-sited research, that is, research in archives located in different places (and countries/continents).
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Factors influencing antimicrobial resistance in residential care homes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2019/06/17/factors-influencing-antimicrobial-resistance-in-residential-care-homes/
Posted by ekrockow in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on June 17, 2019 A brief literature review by Christine Amedor I am Christine, a third-year Medical Physiology undergraduate at the University of Leicester who recently worked...
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Supporting student learning: the limits of genericism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/12/05/supporting-student-learning-the-limits-of-genericism/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on December 5, 2017 ‘Learning in higher education involves adapting to new ways of knowing: new ways of understanding, interpreting and organising knowledge.