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• Students discover Leicesters literary secrets on Joe Orton walking tour

  Date: 30 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/students-discover-leicesters-literary-secrets-on-joe-orton-walking-tour

  This year the University of Leicester has been celebrating the work of Joe Orton.

• Academic shapes national project on history of the electricity supply industry

  Date: 27 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/academic-shapes-national-project-on-history-of-the-electricity-supply-industry

  Dr Sally Horrocks from our School of History, Politics and International Relations has helped to shape a national project examining the inside...

• New website launched to explore the full healthy life in Australia for migrants from the UK and Europe

  Date: 26 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/new-website-launched-to-explore-the-2018full-healthy-life2019-in-australia-for-migrants-from-the-uk-and-europe

  Between 1945 and 1975 some three million migrants and refugees arrived in Australia from Britain and Europe.

• Seventeen novels in seventeen years Leicester alumna Adele Parks to share her journey to the bestsellers list

  Date: 26 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/seventeen-novels-in-seventeen-years-leicester-alumna-adele-parks-to-share-her-journey-to-the-bestsellers-list

  Leicester alumna and author of seventeen bestselling novels Adele Parks will be speaking at Literary Leicester on Wednesday 15 November.

• Our Professor at Bible Museum panel

  Date: 26 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/our-professor-at-bible-museum-panel

  A month before it opens to the public, the Museum of the Bible in the US hosted a scholarly panel discussion featuring an academic from our School...

• Leicester academic brings attention to a lack of care for women after miscarriage

  Date: 23 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-academic-brings-attention-to-a-lack-of-care-for-women-after-miscarriage

  Dr Corinne Fowler from our School of Arts has recently spoken out about the mistreatment of women and the lack of communication after a miscarriage.

• Literary Leicester events to tackle race culture and class headon

  Date: 19 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/literary-leicester-events-to-tackle-race-culture-and-class-head-on

  October 2017 marks the 30th anniversary of Black History Month in the UK - a month dedicated to recognising and celebrating black history, arts...

• Expert opinions cover a nodeal Brexit finding Beagle 2 Donald Trump psychologist Hans Eysenck and the rising breast cancer rate in China

  Date: 18 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/expert-opinions-cover-a-2018no-deal2019-brexit-finding-beagle-2-donald-trump-psychologist-hans-eysenck-and-the-rising-breast-cancer-rate-in-china

  With the Prime Minister’s recent suggestion of a 'no-deal' Brexit, Professor Panicos Demetriades from our School of Business uses his experience...

• Impact of Chinese students in Leicester is focus of TV programme

  Date: 18 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/impact-of-chinese-students-in-leicester-is-focus-of-tv-programme

  Dr Giovanna Puppin, Lecturer in Advertising and International Promotional Cultures in the School of Media, Communication and...

• Public lecture to mark the 350th anniversary of John Miltons epic Paradise Lost

  Date: 18 Oct 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/public-lecture-to-mark-the-350th-anniversary-of-john-milton2019s-epic-paradise-lost

  An upcoming public lecture will mark and celebrate the 350th anniversary of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost.