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• PhD researcher publishes Parliamentary briefing into role science can play in international relations

  Date: 15 Feb 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/phd-researcher-publishes-parliamentary-briefing-into-role-science-can-play-in-international-relations

  Emmeline Ledgerwood from our School of History, Politics and International Relations has published a briefing on Science Diplomacy based on...

• Hannah Lewis MBE to recount her experiences surviving the Holocaust

  Date: 1 Feb 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/hannah-lewis-mbe-to-recount-her-experiences-surviving-the-holocaust

  An upcoming lecture will see Holocaust survivor Hannah Lewis MBE recount her experiences growing up Poland and surviving the atrocities of the...

• University joins local organisations in marking Holocaust Memorial Day

  Date: 26 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/university-joins-local-organisations-in-marking-holocaust-memorial-day

  The millions of people killed in the Holocaust and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur will be remembered at an event...

• Historian explores Chinas political history

  Date: 22 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/historian-explores-china2019s-political-history

  Dr Michael Lynch, Honorary Fellow in our School of History, Politics & International Relations, recently gave a lecture at the University of...

• Researcher joins nationwide initiative to increase BAME representation in Parliament

  Date: 17 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/researcher-joins-nationwide-initiative-to-increase-bame-representation-in-parliament

  A researcher from our University will be taking part in the ‘Operation Black Vote’ MP shadowing scheme, a national initiative designed to increase...

• Book on post-apartheid South Africa by Leicester academic published

  Date: 15 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/book-on-post-apartheid-south-africa-by-leicester-academic-published

  Lecturer and South Africa specialist from our University Dr James Hamill has published a new book, Africa’s Lost Leader: South Africa’s...

• Leicester researcher contributes to Coventrys successful UK City of Culture bid

  Date: 19 Dec 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/leicester-researcher-contributes-to-coventry2019s-successful-uk-city-of-culture-bid

  A postgraduate researcher from our University has been involved with Coventry’s successful bid for ‘City of Culture’ 2021, which was awarded on...

• Project examining poverty throughout England and Wales in Victorian times awarded over 800000

  Date: 14 Dec 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/joint-project-examining-poverty-throughout-england-and-wales-in-victorian-times-award-over-ps800-000

  The National Archives and our University have been awarded a grant of £820,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to undertake a three...

• Seminar to explore research into images taken by Jewish photographers during the Holocaust

  Date: 1 Dec 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/seminar-to-explore-research-into-images-taken-by-jewish-photographers-during-the-holocaust

  The University of Leicester’s Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies invites you to attend the research seminar ‘Photographs...

• Bestselling author Kate Summerscale to give lecture on Detecting Victorian Crime at Leicester

  Date: 28 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/bestselling-author-kate-summerscale-to-give-lecture-on-2018detecting-victorian-crime2019-at-leicester

  Author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale will give the annual Victorian Studies Centre lecture at the University...