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• Expert opinions cover salmonella Trump Chancellor Philip Hammond Juno and support for new mothers

  Date: 5 Dec 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/expert-opinions-cover-salmonella-trump-chancellor-philip-hammond-juno-and-support-for-new-mothers

  Dr Primrose Freestone from the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation has written an article for The Conversation discussing new...

• Excavation of Roman Cemetery nominated for national archaeology award

  Date: 1 Dec 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/excavation-of-roman-cemetery-nominated-for-national-archaeology-award

  For the second year running a project led by Leicester archaeologists has been nominated in the Current Archaeology Awards, this year in the...

• Leicester expert features on BBC 100 Women series

  Date: 28 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-experts-features-on-bbc-100-women-series

  The BBC’s 2016 season of 100 women has featured expert comment from our University.

• Event explores digital opportunities for crisis work and international development

  Date: 24 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/event-explores-digital-opportunities-for-crisis-work-and-international-development

  The role of communications and technology in crises worldwide are to be discussed at an event that launches a new international network of...

• Academics contribute to major project celebrating 80 years of British TV

  Date: 4 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/academics-contribute-to-major-project-celebrating-80-years-of-british-tv

  Professor Helen Wood and Dr Jilly Boyce Kay from the School  of Media, Communication and Sociology have contributed to BBC History’s new archive...

• Artisans and activists in the world of handmade crafts

  Date: 2 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/artisans-and-activists-in-the-world-of-handmade-crafts

  Bake-off and sewing bee enthusiasts have fuelled a revival of traditional crafts, but a week of events at our University will explore whether they...

• University project provides boost for womens empowerment

  Date: 25 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-project-provides-boost-for-womens-empowerment

  A major international project investigating women academics’ careers in public universities in Pakistan has shattered preconceptions about...

• Leicester research informs new Sporting Equals initiative

  Date: 20 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-research-informs-new-sporting-equals-initiative

  Research from the University's Department of Sociology has informed Sporting Equals’s latest consumer research which provides valuable insight...

• Expert opinions cover digital sweatshops and local aid workers

  Date: 12 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/expert-opinions-cover-digital-sweatshops

  Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong from the Department of Media, Communication and Sociology has written an article for The Guardian about how local aid...

• Lecture to discuss how sexual commerce has adapted to the digital age

  Date: 11 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/how-sexual-commerce-has-adapted-to-the-digital-age

  An exploration of how commercial sex in the Western world is mediated or performed through the internet and digital technologies forms part of a...