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• Financial Accounting

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/af1016

  Module code: AF1016 We've all heard news stories about the work of financial accountants. Whether a business is reporting enormous profits, huge losses or is barely scraping by, the impact of the release of their accounts can be huge on their future viability.

• Five reasons why we need to look at childbirth and the media

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/five-reasons-why-we-need-to-look-at-childbirth-and-the-media

  An academic from our University has discussed ways in which the media shapes society’s perceptions, anxieties and emotions arising out of birth.

• John Lewis-University of Leicester Black History Month project wins award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/bhm

  A collaboration between the University of Leicester and the city’s John Lewis department store has received a Black History Month award.

• PostWorld Cup blues Delve into the history of the beautiful game

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/post-world-cup-blues-delve-into-the-history-of-the-beautiful-game

  If the World Cup final leaves football fans wanting more, then a free online course has the answer in the form of one of the beautiful game’s most unlikely success stories.

• Take a visual tour of womens influence throughout University history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/take-a-visual-tour-of-women2019s-influence-throughout-university-history

  From the first female students in 1921, to the first black female president of the Students’ Union in 1975, to the present day, women have played a vital role in our University's history, an exhibition currently being held at the Library reveals.

• Uncovering the past relationships between humans and animals

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/relationship-animals-humans

  Professor Richard Thomas researches the changing relationships between humans and animals through bone analysis, and the contemporary relevance of these findings.

• Mining big data

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/mining-big-data

  Major trauma or life threatening injuries is the most likely cause of fatality in children and adults up to the age of 55 in the UK, causing some 3,000 hospital deaths a year.

• 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.

• Genetics expert solves family mysteries for new TV series

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/dna-family-secrets

  A leading genetics expert from the University of Leicester is part of team seeking to solve ‘DNA Family Secrets’ for a new primetime programme on the BBC.

• Expert opinions cover football the Bemba conviction and Obamas visit to Cuba

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/expert-opinions-cover-football-the-bemba-conviction-and-obamas-visit-to-cuba

  John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written three opinion pieces recently hosted on Think: Leicester.