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  • Sweet genes – not sweet dreams - could explain why a bad night’s sleep makes you older

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/sleep

    New funding support to research teams at University of Leicester to study sleep’s effects on ageing epigenetics Changes to our DNA occur as we get older and could be affected by sleep disturbance Scientists aim to find out whether this epigenetic clock plays a...

  • Sydney Holloway

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/sydney-holloway

    We have recently learned with great sadness of the death of Sydney Holloway, who was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.

  • Facilities

    https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/facilities

    The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester occupies a recently-refurbished, modern, purpose-built laboratory space, furnished with up-to-date equipment for the latest molecular genetic methods.

  • Alumni stars are recognised at glittering awards night in London

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/alumni-stars-awards-night-london

    The University of Leicester recognised its inspiring alumni for their achievements at a special awards evening held in London.

  • Walking pace found to strongly predict risk of death

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/walking-pace-mortality-risk-leicester

    A new analysis of more than 400,000 UK adults by University of Leicester experts has found that easy to collect measures of physical health, particularly how fast someone walks, can significantly improve predictions of mortality risk.

  • Addressing Liberty: Hayek, Gibraltar and The Road to Serfdom

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/04/addressing-liberty-hayek-gibraltar-and-the-road-to-serfdom/

    Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015 Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott , outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist     Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should...

  • Experiential learning: what does sleeping on cardboard tell me about homelessness?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/03/21/experiential-learning-what-does-sleeping-on-cardboard-tell-me-about-homelessness/

    Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on March 21, 2019 Trigger warning: this blog may be TMI for some people, so don’t read on if you are easily offended.

  • Lady in Lead Coffin revealed

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/lady-in-lead-coffin-revealed

    A mysterious lead coffin found close to the site of Richard III's hastily dug grave at the Grey Friars friary has been opened and studied by experts from the University of Leicester’s Archaeological Services (ULAS).

  • The Other in American Fiction and Film

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3130

    Module code: EN3130 Who are the monsters in contemporary America? Those who transgress boundaries of sex, gender, race, sexuality? Those whose bodies are 'different', whose very identity contests and destabilises the dominant order? In this module you will...

  • The Other in American Fiction and Film

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3130

    Module code: EN3130 Who are the monsters in contemporary America? Those who transgress boundaries of sex, gender, race, sexuality? Those whose bodies are 'different', whose very identity contests and destabilises the dominant order? In this module you will...

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