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• Celebrating ethnic diversity event recognises inspirational figures

  Date: 13 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/celebrating-ethnic-diversity-event-to-recognise-inspirational-figures

  Updated, 3 November: Photo gallery now online Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) members of staff were recognised for being nominated by their...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 8 14 October

  Date: 13 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-8-14-october

  John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written an article for the Leicester Mercury discussing the nation's attitude towards rugby in...

• New app to help with real time crime scene reporting across borders

  Date: 12 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/new-app-to-help-with-real-time-crime-scene-reporting-across-borders

  A revolutionary app that allows scene of crime officers to record evidence centrally in real time, thus speeding up crime scene investigations,...

• The fight for minority rights in the United States to be explored at event

  Date: 8 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/the-fight-for-minority-rights-forms-2018a-continuous-thread-of-american-history2019-1

  Issues of racism - from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s up until today - and how the ongoing fight for minority rights has formed...

• Graduate named Young Poet Laureate for London

  Date: 7 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/graduate-named-young-poet-laureate-for-london

  Poet Selina Nwulu, who graduated from the University with a degree in French and Italian from the School of Modern Languages, has been named Young...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 1 7 October

  Date: 7 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-1-7-october

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Provost Professor Mark Peel have written an article for The Guardian about the potential...

• Hurdling medallist seeks crowdfunding on road to Rio

  Date: 5 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/hurdling-medallist-seeks-crowdfunding-on-road-to-rio

  European indoor 60m hurdles silver medallist Lucy Hatton is raising money to help cover costs as she bids to reach the Rio 2016 Olympics.

• Over 150 academics sign up as University experts

  Date: 1 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/over-150-academics-sign-up-as-university-experts

  More than 150 Leicester academics have signed up as experts to the University's Experts Guide, helping to highlight research taking place at the...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 24 30 September

  Date: 30 Sep 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-24-30-september

  Dr Jon Moran from the Department of Politics and International Relations has weighed up the pros and cons of armed drones in the skies above us in...

• How sexual violence in conflict can be combatted through new forensic DNA collecting methods

  Date: 28 Sep 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/how-sexual-violence-in-conflict-can-be-combatted-through-new-methods-for-collecting-forensic-dna

  Dr Lisa Smith (pictured) from the Department of Criminology has launched a new project to investigate alternative ways of collecting DNA evidence...