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Centre offers organisations a route to sustainable success
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/centre-organisations-sustainable-success
The University of Leicester has assembled a team of experts devoted to helping organisations become more sustainable.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/english/research
English at Leicester is an internationally-recognised centre of research excellence across a comprehensive range of scholarly activities and chronological periods.
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Heather Couper (1949-2020)
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/20-heather-couper
Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest at the unveiling of the Rattray Lecture Theatre's astronomical clock in 1989.
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Leicester researcher receives funding for genomic research to tackle incurable lung diseases
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-researcher-receives-funding-for-genomic-research-to-tackle-incurable-lung-diseases
Professor Louise Wain, a researcher in our Department of Health Sciences, has been awarded a personal Chair (Professorship) and a £400,000 grant to conduct ground-breaking research by the British Lung Foundation.
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Indoor air and health
https://le.ac.uk/cehs/hpru/our-research/indoor-air-and-health
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are ubiquitous pollutants in both indoor and outdoor air, but information on exposure to these compounds in homes and workplaces is currently limited.
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University of Leicester receives funding to tackle the ‘Missing Element’ in chemistry diversity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/chemistry-diversity-student
£60,000 grant will create a network for undergraduate chemistry students from minority ethnic backgrounds at the University of Leicester and will support paid summer placements to boost research experience needed for postgraduate study
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University of Leicester staff blogs School of English ‘Untouchable’ works to be investigated at Univ
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/16/untouchable-works-to-be-investigated-at-university-of-leicester-event/
School of English Centre for New Writing Untouchable Dalit Literature
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Medicinal Chemistry BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/medicinal-chemistry-bsc/2026
Every infection-fighting and disease-treating drug owes a great debt to chemistry. In this degree, you’ll be given a solid grounding in chemistry and its role alongside drug development.
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University celebrates a beauti-fall AutumnFest at the Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/autumn
More than 1,800 people came together at the Botanic Garden on Saturday (30 September) to celebrate the University’s inaugural AutumnFest
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African Caribbean men help to spread prostate cancer message
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/african-caribbean-men-help-to-spread-prostate-cancer-message
Play Domino Talk Prostate (Cancer) Local men of the African/Caribbean community explain prostate cancer awareness and the higher risk for black men in this inspiring video.