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• COP28 redux: Where are we in the climate fight?

  Date: 19 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/tim-neff-cop28

  Lecturer in Journalism, Timothy Neff, attended COP28 to cover the conference’s side events.

• University of Leicester media students join forces with NHS to produce a film for local mental health services

  Date: 6 Jul 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/nhs-media

  Students from University of Leicester have teamed up with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) to produce a film that introduces local...

• 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...

• New guidance for filmmakers on how to represent people with disabilities 

  Date: 13 Jun 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/disabilities-in-media

  A recent PhD from the University of Leicester has called on the film industry to better represent people with disabilities on the big screen.

• Engaging the digital generation in democracy: new insights presented by Leicester experts

  Date: 7 Nov 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/digigen-conference

  Research by University of Leicester explores how a digitally-literate younger generation becomes involved in politics through digital technology.

• Two Leicester archaeologists win prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize

  Date: 21 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/leverhulme-prize

  Two academics from the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History have each been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme...

• New evidence traces herpes virus back almost 5,000 years

  Date: 28 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/herpes-genome

  Researchers have mapped the genetic structure of the herpes virus and, for the first time, traced its European origin back almost 5,000 years.

• Read all about it! Journalism students to work side-by-side with Leicester reporters

  Date: 26 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-mercury

  Leicester’s next generation of journalists will gain first-hand experience of local reporting as a result of a new partnership between the...

• Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site

  Date: 24 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-cathedral-ulas

  The team behind the discovery of Richard III have resumed major archaeological excavations at Leicester Cathedral, close to where the King was found.

• Digging for Britain: Leicester Archaeology projects to feature on BBC

  Date: 4 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/digging-for-britain

  Projects led by Leicester archaeologists are to be showcased on the new series of BBC TWO’s primetime TV series Digging for Britain in the New Year.