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• Free online course offers insights into the time of Richard III

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/free-online-course-offers-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii

  As the first anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course that explores what it was really like to live in the world of the last Plantagenet King.

• Study investigates public acceptability for placebos as replacement of unnecessary medicines

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/placebo

  The wider use of placebos in primary care to reduce overprescribing, conserve existing antibiotics and limit further resistance, is publicly acceptable new study shows.

• Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s - 1948

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/jewish-dress-migration-and-belonging-1880s-1948

  History of Jewish Dress and migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Palestine/Israel

• Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/jewish-dress-migration-belonging

  External partners and collaborators|Dress expresses intimate feelings of belonging and identity. A focus on dress is especially rewarding when looking at migrant societies in which people from diverse backgrounds have often different ideas of how one should dress and why.

• Study heralds intensive exercise with intervals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-heralds-intensive-exercise-with-intervals

  Short bursts of intensive exercise provide a more “time-efficient” and realistic way of preventing, delaying and managing Type 2 diabetes and also losing weight, a study by our University and the NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical...

• Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/covid

  A major new global study has found that higher rates of severe illness and death among ethnic minority groups during the pandemic was largely driven by a greater risk of infection.

• Philippa Walton

  https://le.ac.uk/people/philippa-walton

  The academic profile of Dr Philippa Walton, Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at University of Leicester

• Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/lockdown-effects-on-bame-communities

  New research by University of Leicester academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, may not have been as effective in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities with data showing that cases in these...

• Pioneering study identifies over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/thyroid

  A new study has identified over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels, shedding light on the causes of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism (underactive and overactive thyroid).

• Unique protein signatures linked to ethnicity and changes in physical activity observed in new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/diabetes-ethnicity-protein-study-leicester

  A Leicester study has shed light on why people of South Asian (SA) origin may face a higher risk of cardiometabolic disorders and respond differently to physical activity compared to White European people