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• Research reveals what audiences expect when TV is offensive

  Date: 10 Jan 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/research-reveals-what-audiences-expect-when-tv-is-offensive

  Researchers from Leicester and Birmingham City University have revealed some of the key concerns audiences have with television they find ‘offensive’.

• University life in the 1920s revealed through historical interview

  Date: 13 Dec 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/university-life-in-the-1920s-revealed-through-historical-interview

  A new project organised by our University is making a number of oral history interviews with people who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries...

• Expert opinions cover changing culture tackling inequality the Casey Review and saffron the worlds most expensive spice

  Date: 13 Dec 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/expert-opinions-cover-changing-culture-tackling-inequality-the-casey-review-and-saffron-the-worlds-most-expensive-spice

  Dr Elizabeth Anderson from the Department of Medical and Social Care Education and Dr Simon Bennett from the School of Business have co-authored...

• Festival turns spotlight on issues that people who are transgender are facing at home and abroad

  Date: 7 Dec 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/festival-turns-spotlight-on-issues-that-people-who-are-transgender-are-facing-at-home-and-abroad

  Issues that people who are transgender are facing at home and abroad, and what ought to be done about the issues, were the focus of "Transgender,...

• Expert opinions cover salmonella Trump Chancellor Philip Hammond Juno and support for new mothers

  Date: 5 Dec 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/expert-opinions-cover-salmonella-trump-chancellor-philip-hammond-juno-and-support-for-new-mothers

  Dr Primrose Freestone from the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation has written an article for The Conversation discussing new...

• Leicester expert features on BBC 100 Women series

  Date: 28 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-experts-features-on-bbc-100-women-series

  The BBC’s 2016 season of 100 women has featured expert comment from our University.

• Event explores digital opportunities for crisis work and international development

  Date: 24 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/event-explores-digital-opportunities-for-crisis-work-and-international-development

  The role of communications and technology in crises worldwide are to be discussed at an event that launches a new international network of...

• Academics contribute to major project celebrating 80 years of British TV

  Date: 4 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/academics-contribute-to-major-project-celebrating-80-years-of-british-tv

  Professor Helen Wood and Dr Jilly Boyce Kay from the School  of Media, Communication and Sociology have contributed to BBC History’s new archive...

• Artisans and activists in the world of handmade crafts

  Date: 2 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/artisans-and-activists-in-the-world-of-handmade-crafts

  Bake-off and sewing bee enthusiasts have fuelled a revival of traditional crafts, but a week of events at our University will explore whether they...

• Expert opinions cover digital sweatshops and local aid workers

  Date: 12 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/expert-opinions-cover-digital-sweatshops

  Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong from the Department of Media, Communication and Sociology has written an article for The Guardian about how local aid...