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Smoking and public health case study
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/epigenetics/case-studies/smoking-public-health
Details on the relation between epigenetics and smoking and public health. The University of Leicester provides useful resources to aid research and learning.
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UK experts call for a refined, universal definition of long COVID
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/covid
Two leading UK experts in infectious diseases who played a major research role during the pandemic have called for a refined, universal definition of long COVID
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Last chance for frontline healthcare workers to register for flagship empathy course
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/empathy-course
The Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, based at the University of Leicester, has created the Putting Evidence-Based Empathy into Practice workshop to help healthcare professionals develop empathy habits they can use in their clinical practice.
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Managing Security in the Workplace: Approaches, Regulation and Governance
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/cr7720
Module code: CR7720 This module considers approaches to managing security, regulation and governance. It will encourage you to critically consider the extent to which the study of crime at work can inform the study of security and risk management.
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Living the Anthropocene
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy7712
Module code: GY7712 This module provides an in-depth introduction to the Anthropocene. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which humans have become geological agents, and on the effects that such agency has on Earth’s bio-physical systems.
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Roman Remains: Classical Antiquity in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en7246
Module code: EN7246 At the start of Philip Massinger’s tragedy The Roman Actor, the character Paris the 'Tragaedian’ declares that: ‘Our aime is glorie, and to leaue our names/ To after times’.
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Living the Anthropocene
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy7712
Module code: GY7712 This module provides an in-depth introduction to the Anthropocene. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which humans have become geological agents, and on the effects that such agency has on Earth’s bio-physical systems.
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University hosts the regions biggest student convention
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/university-hosts-the-regions-biggest-student-convention
More than 10,000 aspiring university students are converging upon the University for the East Midlands UCAS convention to be held on Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 April.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 17 23 September
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-17-23-september
Stephanie Gordon, a final year doctoral student in the Department of Politics and International Relations, has written an article for The Conversation about the Uighurs - a Muslim Turkic ethnic group, most of whose Chinese population reside in China’s north-western Xinjiang...
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Leicester geologists publish new book on exquisitely preserved fossil animals from 500 million years ago
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-geologists-publish-new-book-on-exquisitely-preserved-fossil-animals-from-500-million-years-ago
Together with colleagues from Yunnan University, Oxford University and The Natural History Museum, palaeontologists Mark Williams, Sarah Gabbott, David Siveter and Mark Purnell from our Department of Geology have published a striking new book illustrating exceptionally...