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Leicester celebrates World Book Night
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/leicester-celebrates-world-book-night
To celebrate World Book Night, this year the University successfully applied to be a volunteer institution, and hand out out books to share a love...
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University celebrates milestone 100 articles on The Conversation
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...
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April
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...
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Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics this week
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...
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Leicester student mentored by ITV News Central wins Breaking Into News competition
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.
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Governments more likely to be responsive when strong public opposition is voiced
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...
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Ethics and effectiveness of drones and remote warfare to be explored
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-ethics-and-effectiveness-of-drones-and-remote-warfare-to-be-explored
The evolution of war will be discussed at a free conference on Wednesday 11 February which examines the historical and contemporary issues of...
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Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics this week
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/wolf-hall-thomas-more-and-the-turks
Professor Norman Housley from the School of History has written an article about the BBC drama 'Wolf Hall', which portrays aspects of Tudor life,...
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From air travel getting safer to the doublestandards of sex tourism
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/from-air-travel-getting-safer-to-the-double-standard-of-sex-tourism
In the latest in a series of opinion pieces Dr Simon Bennett from the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning has written an article for The...
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From English sparkling wine to digital protests in China
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/from-english-sparkling-wine-to-digital-protests-in-china
In the latest in a series of opinion pieces Drs Sarah Robinson and Elke Weik from the School of Management have written an article for the...