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Lifelong learning adult education start-up given launch boost by the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/my-ancient-world
A lifelong learning adult education start-up company has been given a helping hand by the University of Leicester as it prepares to launch its first courses.
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Serena Iervolino: PhD reflections
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/serena-iervolino
2013 was a memorable year for me. I completed my PhD, simultaneously experiencing a great sense of achievement but also terror. “What’s my next challenge?” I wondered.
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Research opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/opportunities
Funding The Institute for Precision Health offers numerous funding opportunities to enhance your research and industrial collaborations via the UKRI MRC Impact Acceleration Accounts (IAA) award. Funding calls will be announced via the Institute and drugdiscovery@le.ac.
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Leicester researchers discover Charles Dickens artists lost sketches in school textbook
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-researchers-discover-charles-dickens-artists-secret-sketches-in-school-textbook
Schoolboy doodles by the Victorian artist John Leech, who first illustrated Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol', have been discovered by researchers from our University and will be on display in the David Wilson Library until 31 July.
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Leicester’s Dr Hannah Young is the 2025 Donna Lamping Award Recipient
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/kidney-association-award-leicester
Dr Hannah Young, Specialist Research Physiotherapist at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, is the recipient of the UK Kidney Association's 2025 Donna Lamping MDT Researcher Award.
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Sweatshops
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/sweatshops/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 Following the recent tragedy in Bangladesh- would you pay more for ethical production? Depressingly, a H uff/Post YouGov poll of American shoppers found little awareness about the...
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Leicester rises in Times Higher Education World University Rankings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/leicester-rises-in-times-higher-education-world-university-rankings
A definitive table of world University rankings has seen the University of Leicester climb 32 places to 167 – placing Leicester firmly among the top 1 per cent of universities in the world.
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University is seeking new talent to help with its ground-breaking lifestyle and health work
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/leicester-lifestyle
“Physical activity has the power to transform lives,” that’s the message from University of Leicester experts on National Fitness Day.
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Videos highlight Leicesters leading space expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/videos-highlight-leicesters-leading-space-expertise-at-great-festival
Leicester’s leading expertise in cutting-edge space research has been showcased in a series of videos captured during the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong, which is organised by the UK’s Department for International Trade and took place in March of this year.
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Leicester Cancer Research Biobank
https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/facilities-and-services/cancer-biobank
The Leicester Cancer Research Biobank is hosted within the department of Genetics and Genome Biology, Cancer Research Centre based at the Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building, Cancer research is currently in an era in which thousands of genes, RNA molecules and...