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Space, Place and Contemporary Culture
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/sy3093
Module code: SY3093 This module seeks to explore the concept of space and place in society, where these are largely either ignored or misinterpreted.
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Colonial Countryside
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/colonial-countryside
The Colonial Countryside project assembles authors, writers, historians and primary pupils to explore country houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections. It commissions, resources and publishes new writing.
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Don Jones
https://le.ac.uk/people/don-jones
The academic profile of Professor Don Jones, Co-Director of Leicester Precision Medicine Institute at University of Leicester
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2023 news
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/news/2023
Please see below for articles published in 2023. Pneumococcal capsule expression is controlled through a conserved, distal cis-regulatory element during infection David G. Glanville; Ozcan Gazioglu; Michela Marra; Valerie L. Tokars; Tatyana Kushnir; Medhanie Habtom; Nicholas J.
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New research could help detect early signs of heart failure in diabetic patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/diabetes-heart-failure
New research in Leicester, which has been funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), could help understand how heart failure can develop in people living with Type 2 diabetes. An estimated 3.7 million people in the UK are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
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Expert panel to open up menopause ‘taboo’ at public discussion
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/difficult-conversations-menopause
Professor King said: “What we wanted to do with this series is to talk about topics that are potentially quite difficult ones to talk about.
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Surnames and the Y chromosome
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/the-diasporas-projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome
Dr Turi E King, Research Fellow and Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain. Lead researcher on 'The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England' project. Research Fellow: Dr Turi King In Britain, we have heritable surnames.
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Surnames and the Y chromosome
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome
Research Fellow: Dr Turi King - Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain and lead researcher on the Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England project In Britain, we have heritable surnames.
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Roman Knossos
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/big-antiquity/roman-knossos
The University of Leicester's Roman Knossos Archaeology project, an excavation and investigation of the Roman settlement at Knossos, Greece (Colonia Iulia Nobilis Cnossus).
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Markov Processes
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ma7404
Module code: MA7404 This module gives an introduction to the mathematical models that Actuaries use in their day-to-day work. The module starts with explaining the underlying concepts of financial and actuarial modelling in general.