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• A 10 minute walk a day could add a year to your life – study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/brisk-walk

  A longer, healthier life could be as little as a ten-minute walk away, according to the findings of a new study conducted by researchers funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at the University of...

• Study investigates public acceptability for placebos as replacement of unnecessary medicines

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/placebo

  The wider use of placebos in primary care to reduce overprescribing, conserve existing antibiotics and limit further resistance, is publicly acceptable new study shows.

• Research

  https://le.ac.uk/law/research

  Leicester Law School is a research-led department committed to producing the highest quality of scholarship while recognising the important relationship between excellence in research and in teaching. Find out more about the research undertaken by the School.

• Study heralds intensive exercise with intervals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-heralds-intensive-exercise-with-intervals

  Short bursts of intensive exercise provide a more “time-efficient” and realistic way of preventing, delaying and managing Type 2 diabetes and also losing weight, a study by our University and the NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical...

• Free online course offers insights into the time of Richard III

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/free-online-course-offers-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii

  As the first anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course that explores what it was really like to live in the world of the last Plantagenet King.

• Forensics course explores how science helps police to solve crimes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/forensics-course-explores-how-science-helps-police-to-solve-crimes

  A popular free course offered by our University showcasing how police use forensic science to solve crimes will be running for its fourth time starting from 3 October 2016.

• Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/covid

  A major new global study has found that higher rates of severe illness and death among ethnic minority groups during the pandemic was largely driven by a greater risk of infection.

• Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s - 1948

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/jewish-dress-migration-and-belonging-1880s-1948

  History of Jewish Dress and migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Palestine/Israel

• Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/lockdown-effects-on-bame-communities

  New research by University of Leicester academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, may not have been as effective in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities with data showing that cases in these...

• Study Abroad at the University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/cite/study-abroad-unit/incoming/enquiry

  Study with us for a semester or full academic year and join our community of Citizens of Change. Experience university life in a vibrant, diverse and friendly UK city, whilst earning credits that are transferable to your home university. Start your journey here today!