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• Winners of Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 announced

  Date: 8 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/winners-of-festival-of-postgraduate-research-2015-announced

  The winners of the Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 have been announced.

• Childrens attitudes towards the law revealed through innovative digital game project

  Date: 1 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/children2019s-attitudes-towards-the-law-revealed-through-innovative-digital-game-project

  A new project using a fun digital game aims to find out what primary school children really know and think about the law and their rights.

• Researcher suggests mainstream media is responsible for shallow coverage of antirape activism

  Date: 30 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/researcher-suggests-mainstream-media-is-responsible-for-shallow-coverage-of-anti-rape-activism

  Dr Kaitlynn Mendes (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has argued in a new book that the mainstream media often neglects...

• Leicester in new study on social identity

  Date: 24 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-in-new-study-on-social-identity

  The University has been selected as the only UK university to be involved in a Europe-wide project studying social identity.

• Award-winning graduate gives insights into the experiences of care leavers at university

  Date: 23 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/award-winning-graduate-gives-insights-into-the-experiences-of-care-leavers-at-university

  A former student, recognised earlier this year for his work to support care leavers, has spoken at the annual conference of the National...

• Lad culture in education promotes misogynistic messages researchers say

  Date: 16 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/lad-culture2019-in-education-promotes-misogynistic-messages-researchers-say

  Researchers will be debating the rise of ‘lad culture’ in education and how it promotes a ‘nexus of sexism’ at an upcoming free public event on 22...

• Social media to create earlywarning systems to combat future disasters

  Date: 10 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/social-media-to-create-2018early-warning-systems2019-to-combat-future-disasters

  Researchers from the Department of Media and Communication are examining how communities can use social media to improve their resilience to both...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 4 10 June

  Date: 10 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-4-10-june

  Professor Melanie Simms from the School of Management has discussed on The Conversation how the recent successes of the Rail, Maritime and...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 28 May 3 June

  Date: 3 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-28-may-3-june

  John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written a piece for The Conversation on Sepp Blatter, who before recently resigning from his...

• Leicester reaches one million readers on The Conversation

  Date: 22 May 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/leicester-reaches-1-million-readers-on-the-conversation

  Academics from across the University have collectively captured the imagination of over one million readers through more than 100 articles on The...