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• Do we face a DisUnited Kingdom

  Date: 8 May 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/do-we-face-a-dis-united-kingdom

  Politics experts from the Department of Politics and International Relations will be holding a free public ‘Question Time’-like roundtable...

• Holocaust awareness event to pay tribute to liberators of Belsen camp

  Date: 8 May 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/holocaust-awareness-event-to-pay-tribute-to-liberators-of-belsen

  Today is the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, first celebrated on 8 May 1945, which marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of...

• New course to teach how modern museums can improve health and human rights

  Date: 6 May 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/new-course-to-teach-how-modern-museums-can-improve-health-and-human-rights

  The world’s first ‘Massive Open Online Course’ (MOOC) in Museum Studies is to be launched by the University, providing people with the opportunity...

• University celebrates milestone 100 articles on The Conversation

  Date: 29 Apr 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/university-reaches-100-articles-milestone-on-the-conversation

  Academics from across the University have collectively published 100 articles on The Conversation, setting a new milestone for Leicester in...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April

  Date: 9 Apr 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april

  Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good...

• Hidden Stories book launch celebrates Leicesters and Glossops Deindustrial Past

  Date: 31 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/2018hidden-stories2019-book-launch-celebrates-leicester2019s-and-glossop2019s-de-industrial-past

  The AHRC-funded ‘Affective Digital Histories: Recreating De-industrial Places, 1970s to the Present’ project team will present an evening of...

• Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics this week

  Date: 24 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-this-week

  Despite promises of ‘ultrafast’ broadband services in the latest Budget announcement, Dr Bianca Reisdorf from the Department of Media and...

• Leicester student mentored by ITV News Central wins Breaking Into News competition

  Date: 16 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/leicester-student-mentored-by-itv-news-central-wins-breaking-into-news-competition

  Sally Wynter from the Department of History of Art and Film has won the 2015 Breaking Into News initiative, run by ITV News and Media Trust.

• Tales of migration lead to unique international project

  Date: 2 Mar 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/migrants-tales-lead-to-unique-international-project

  A tale of two cities has brought together two international universities in a unique collaboration to explore their common histories.

• Governments more likely to be responsive when strong public opposition is voiced

  Date: 16 Feb 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/governments-more-likely-to-be-responsive-when-strong-public-opposition-is-voiced

  Governments often ignore public opposition to their policies but they are far less likely to do so when public opinion is strongly and...