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• Celebrating diversity during LGBT+ month

  Date: 12/02/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/12-lgbt-history-month

  As part of a month long celebration of diversity, we are hosting a series of events to mark LGBT+ History Month, which runs from Monday 3...

• Time to Erase the Grey on sexual violence

  Date: 03/02/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/03-erase-the-grey

  The University and Students’ Union are collaborating to raise awareness of sexual violence this February, through Sexual Violence Awareness Week,...

• International Women's Day 2019 Best Practice Winners

  Date: 06/11/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/06-international-womens-day-2019-best-practice-winners

  The University has been recognised by the official International Women’s Day campaign for our Leicester’s Wall of Women activity during...

• University response to EHRC racial harassment report

  Date: 23/10/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/23-university-response-to-ehrc-racial-harassment-report

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has today published a report examining racial harassment in higher education.

• Refugee Week: an opportunity for refugees and asylum seekers with a background in medicine

  Date: 21/06/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/21-refugee-week-sanctuary-medicine-programme

  An initiative to provide refugee and asylum seeking doctors and nurses an opportunity to gain a key language qualification is being spearheaded at...

• Refugee Week: University of Leicester announces Sanctuary Scholarships

  Date: 20/06/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/20-refugee-week-sanctuary-scholarships

  Support for refugees and asylum seekers to access higher education is being extended by the University of Leicester.

• Refugee Week: schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp

  Date: 19/06/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/19-refugee-week-primary-school-messages-of-hope

  Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece.

• Refugee Week: 17 to 23 June 2019

  Date: 13/06/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/13-refugee-week-university-of-sanctuary

  The University of Leicester’s Refugee Week, from 17 to 23 June 2019, is part of the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contribution of refugees...

• Athena SWAN Award for Archaeology and Ancient History

  Date: 07/05/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/07-athena-swan-bronze-archaeology

  We are pleased to announce that the School of Archaeology and Ancient History (SAAH) has received an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of...

• Leicester academic appointed to first ever Government LGBT Advisory Panel

  Date: 21/03/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/21-government-lgbt-advisory-panel

  Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy, Associate Professor in Hate Studies within the Department of Criminology, has been appointed to the Government’s first ever...