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• Is the UK citizenship test counterproductive?

  Date: 12 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/12-uk-citizenship-test-counterproductive

  New research indicates that gaining UK citizenship leads to immigrants becoming less engaged in politics.

• Chickens to be marker of Anthropocene

  Date: 12 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/12-chickens-to-mark-anthropocene

  Consumption of chickens signals new geological epoch according to research led by the University of Leicester Modern meat chickens are a defining...

• Gin: The only tonic to Brexit?

  Date: 10 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/12-gin-only-tonic-to-brexit

  University of Leicester and Burleighs Gin team up to present a delicious way to engage in Brexit debate.

• Richard III’s discovery takes to the stage at the Royal Institution

  Date: 23 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/23-richard-iii-royal-institution-haldene-lecture

  Richard III geneticist Professor Turi King to give prestigious JBS Haldane Lecture on Monday 26 November 2018.

• University of Leicester academic takes leading role in major new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon England

  Date: 18 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/anglo-saxon-exhibition

  A renowned University of Leicester expert in Early Medieval History has taken a leading role in a new exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word,...

• University of Leicester researcher is finalist for prestigious heritage award

  Date: 9 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/10-researcher-is-finalist-for-prestigious-heritage-award

  PhD researcher from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History Mark Webb shortlisted for 2018 Historic England Angel Award

• New report finds nuclear weapons and related systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack

  Date: 27 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-nuclear-report

  Report involving Dr Andrew Futter finds nuclear weapon increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack

• Principal texts set out principles of intelligence

  Date: 16 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/17-new-spying-publications

  Leicester academic publishes two new key books on espionage and intelligence.

• Leicester research is using valuable manuscripts saved from destruction in conflict zones

  Date: 10 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/leicester-research-is-using-valuable-manuscripts-saved-from-destruction-in-conflict-zones

  Dr Jan Vandeburie is working with the Hill Manuscript Museum and Library, where significant historical documents are preserved and...

• Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene

  Date: 4 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/scholars-discuss-the-formalisation-and-implications-of-the-anthropocene

  The Anthropocene Working Group holds meeting at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Humans have had a large impact on Earth.