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Women are more fairly funded in the social sciences
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/women-are-more-fairly-funded-in-the-social-sciences
Accounting for academic position, women are as successful as men at winning grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and they receive grants that are actually slightly larger than those won by men.
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Wildfires across the Americas have been supercharged by climate change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/wildfires-americas-supercharged-climate-change
Study: Warming increased burning in Pantanal, Chiquitano and Amazon, releasing billions of tonnes of CO2, while climate change increased likelihood of Southern California’s deadly fires by at least 2-3 times
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35th for Business and Management research in REF2021
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/ref2021
The School of Business research highlights in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
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Cultures of the Caribbean past and present in podcast
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/cultures-of-the-caribbean-past-and-present-in-podcast
A Leicester archaeologist has launched a new podcast that explores the fascinating history of the Caribbean Islands as told through its objects.
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Key Events in the Evolution of Planet Earth Viewed Through the Geological Lens of Wales - a field course
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gl3114
Module code: GL3114 Journey through 150 million years of early Palaeozoic Earth history expressed through the rock succession of Wales, the birthplace of the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian systems.
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Key Events in the Evolution of Planet Earth Viewed Through the Geological Lens of Wales - a field course
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gl3114
Module code: GL3114 Journey through 150 million years of early Palaeozoic Earth history expressed through the rock succession of Wales, the birthplace of the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian systems.
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Key Events in the Evolution of Planet Earth Viewed Through the Geological Lens of Wales - a field course
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gl3114
Module code: GL3114 Journey through 150 million years of early Palaeozoic Earth history expressed through the rock succession of Wales, the birthplace of the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian systems.
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The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature
https://le.ac.uk/modern-languages/research/poetics-of-plants
An overview of Professor Lesley Wylie's Leverhulme-funded project exploring the poetics of plants in Latin American Literature
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Measuring the temperature of our planets land surfaces
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/measuring-the-temperature-of-our-planets-land-surfaces
Our researchers are leading a major new project to measure the temperature of the Earth’s land surfaces. Evidence suggests that long-term trends in surface temperature can be an indicator of climate change.
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Students awaken the science of Star Wars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/students-awaken-the-science-of-star-wars
Could a lightsaber really work? What would hyperspace travel look like? And how strong would a deflector shield need to be to fend off interstellar attacks? These are all questions that Star Wars fans have been asking for decades, and now that The Force Awakens has been...