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• University conference celebrates publication of The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant

  Date: 3 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/university-conference-celebrates-publication-of-the-selected-works-of-margaret-oliphant

  A conference on the works of Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant, featuring literary experts from the UK, US and New Zealand hosted by the...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 18 June 1 July

  Date: 1 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-18-june-1-july

  Professor Philip Shaw from the School of English has written an opinion piece for The Conversation where, two centuries after Waterloo, he...

• 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.

• 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...

• Make yourself at gnome the fashionable hermit in the garden

  Date: 11 May 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/gnome-man2019s-land-the-fashionable-hermit-in-the-garden

  The curious story of garden hermits - from their distant ancestors in imperial Rome to their humble modern counterpart, the dapper garden gnome -...