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• Leicesters everevolving literary festival receives important Arts Council grant

  Date: 18 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicesters-ever-evolving-literary-festival-receives-important-arts-council-grant

  Literary Leicester, a leading festival of the written and spoken word organised by our University, opens in Leicester next month (November), with...

• Leicester plays key role in BBC Secret Life of Sue Townsend Aged 68 programme

  Date: 14 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/the-secret-life-of-sue-townsend-aged-68-3-4

  Our University has played a key role in a new BBC programme on honorary graduate and Distinguished Honorary Fellow Sue Townsend, who died in 2014.

• Prestigious archaeology prize for Leicester graduate

  Date: 13 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/prestigious-archaeology-prize-for-leicester-graduate

  The Association for Environmental Archaeology has announced that Leicester alumna Nora Battermann has won their John Evans Undergraduate...

• New BBC Radio 3 drama inspired by rare Joe Orton manuscript

  Date: 7 Oct 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-bbc-radio-3-drama-inspired-by-rare-joe-orton-manuscript

  A rare and previously unpublished manuscript by playwright Joe Orton located within the Joe Orton Archive has inspired an upcoming BBC Radio 3 drama.

• One hundred Leicester academics writing articles for The Conversation

  Date: 29 Sep 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/one-hundred-leicester-academics-now-writing-articles-for-the-conversation

  One hundred academics from across our University have written more than 180 articles for The Conversation, applying their research expertise to...

• Visiting Professor awarded the prestigious Presidents Medal from the British Academy

  Date: 27 Sep 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/visiting-professor-awarded-the-prestigious-presidents-medal-from-the-british-academy

  A Visiting Professor at our University has been honoured with one of the highest awards for humanities and social sciences.

• Chinese link with local renal unit builds on University initiatives

  Date: 14 Sep 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/chinese-link-with-local-renal-unit-builds-on-university-initiatives

  Links with a nephrology unit in Nantong China developed by University researchers have now led to Leicester’s Hospitals’ John Walls Renal Unit...

• Leicester geneticist awarded prestigious Fellowship

  Date: 9 Sep 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-geneticist-awarded-prestigious-fellowship

  Dr Turi King (pictured), Reader in Genetics and Archaeology at the University has been awarded a prestigious British Science Association (BSA)...

• Bestselling crime author to give University public lecture

  Date: 8 Sep 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/bestselling-crime-author-to-give-university-public-lecture

  Bestselling American crime author Patricia Cornwell (pictured) will give a free public lecture as part of the University of Leicester’s...

• Expert opinions cover border controls Helen of Troy and Jupiters auroras

  Date: 6 Sep 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/expert-opinions-cover-border-controls-helen-of-troy-and-jupiters-auroras

  Professor Bernard Ryan from the School of Law has written an article for The Conversation discussing the admission of migrants from the Calais...