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Disputed Bodies: Narratives of Medical Research in Europe, c. 1940s to 2001
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/disputed-bodies
WT096580MA, Large Programme Grant, Joint PI, Wellcome Trust funded from 2 March 2012 to 1st April 2018), a major new book and associated articles.
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Life on the home front
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/life-on-the-home-front
Learn more about life on the home front during the First World War from interviews with residents of Leicestershire during the time.
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Leicester ramps up its wellbeing support for Gen Z students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/leicester-wellbeing-support-gen-z-students
With almost a quarter of those in the Generation Z age group affected by mental health issues, The University of Leicester has ramped up the wellbeing support it offers its students.
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University of Leicester welcomes Sutton Trust report into medical students from working class backgrounds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/university-leicester-sutton-trust-working-class-medical-students
The University of Leicester has welcomed a report which has highlighted the dearth of medical students from working class backgrounds in the UK.
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Long Covid researchers reflect on the PHOSP-COVID study 5 years on, ahead of Long Covid Awareness Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/long-covid-awareness-day-phosp
A study team from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) have been reflecting on their world leading research into Long Covid ahead of International Long Covid Awareness Day on Saturday, March 15 2025.
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Cosmic blast hunter SVOM to launch with optimal optics from Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/svom-mxt
Mission to find gamma ray bursts is latest to use technology from University of Leicester in x-ray optics
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Cutting-edge telescope built at University of Leicester makes final departure to join SMILE mission
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/smile
The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), led by University of Leicester scientists, has been completed and delivered for integration into the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) spacecraft.
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First-ever University Challenge champs aim to bring trophy back to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/university-challenge
A team of University of Leicester students will be bidding to bring the BBC University Challenge trophy back to the East Midlands for the first time since 1963.
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Positive impact
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change/positive-impact
Explore our research and teaching for positive change