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• Prison noise examined in new book from Leicester alumnus

  Date: 24 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/prison-study

  A researcher has used her time spent behind bars while at the University of Leicester as the basis for a book on the effect of sound in prisons.

• Super rare and venomous centipede found in University of Leicester academic’s home

  Date: 22 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/centipede

  Explore the intriguing discovery of Scutigera coleoptrata, the fastest-moving centipede in the world, in Nottinghamshire, UK.

• Victim of racist abuse joins study to explore racism in rural England

  Date: 11 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/rural-racism

  A university researcher who’s been on the receiving end of targeted racist abuse in the English countryside is part of a University of Leicester...

• Award-winning University of Leicester film Harms of Hate revisited a decade on

  Date: 18 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/harms-of-hate

  University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies will revisit its award-winning short film The Harms of Hate, a decade on.

• HE assessment guidance is successfully tackling racial inequality, study finds

  Date: 11 Jul 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/ripiag

  The most recent assessment of the Racially Inclusive Practice in Assessment Guidance (RIPIAG) has shown that its implementation has improved race...

• University of Leicester partners with local Violence Reduction Network and Home Office to tackle violent crime

  Date: 5 Jul 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/serious-violence

  Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Violence Reduction Network, in partnership with the University of Leicester and the Home Office, will...

• Six Leverhulme Early Career Fellows to join University of Leicester to conduct groundbreaking research

  Date: 4 Jul 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/leverhulme

  Six academics will join the University of Leicester in the 2023/24 academic year after being awarded Early Career Fellowships from the Leverhulme...

• University of Leicester commissioned to undertake pioneering research into rural racism by Leverhulme Trust

  Date: 29 Mar 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/rural-racism

  University of Leicester experts have been commissioned by The Leverhulme Trust to develop a ground-breaking study on racism in rural England.

• University of Leicester academic included in The Football Black List 2022

  Date: 7 Feb 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/football-black-list-2022

  University of Leicester academic, Dr Paul Campbell has been named on The Football Black List 2022, alongside the likes of Marcus Rashford, Bukayo...

• BLOG: what’s the wider story behind Leicester’s migration history?

  Date: 16 Dec 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/migration

  Fifty years ago Leicester welcomed up to 28,000 South Asian UK passport holders from Uganda.