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• Sporting sensation set for 2016 European Athletics Championships

  Date: 30 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/sporting-sensation-set-for-2016-european-athletics-championships

  An undergraduate student at our University has been selected for the Great Britain 100 metre hurdling team which is headed to Amsterdam in July...

• Politicians and media fuel hate crime in Britain say experts

  Date: 29 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/2018politicians-and-media-fuel-hate-crime-in-britain-2019-say-experts

  Professor Neil Chakraborti and Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy, from our Centre for Hate Studies, say the ‘toxic climate’ surrounding the EU referendum...

• Leicester announces four new research institutes to drive global research excellence

  Date: 29 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-announces-four-new-research-institutes

  Our University has announced it is establishing four new research institutes.

• Masters students announced as winners in innovative ideas competition

  Date: 28 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/master2019s-students-announced-as-winners-in-innovative-ideas-competition

  A team of Master’s students has been announced as a winner of the JISC Summer of Innovation Student Ideas competition.

• Expert opinions cover slum tourism the BBC and Brexit

  Date: 27 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/expert-opinions-cover-slum-tourism-the-bbc-and-brexit

  Professor Peter Lunt has written an article discussing how Ofcom may soon regulate the BBC - yet we know it already struggles to treat the public...

• New videos help mark 50th anniversary of Department of Media and Communication

  Date: 23 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-videos-help-mark-50th-anniversary-of-department-of-media-and-communication

  2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the University's Centre for Mass Communication Research – the first Centre of its kind studying mass...

• University cited by Leicester MP in European Union membership debate

  Date: 21 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/university-cited-by-leicester-mp-in-european-union-membership-debate

  Our University has been cited in a European Union membership debate in the House of Commons by Leicester West and Labour MP, Liz Kendall, on 15 June.

• Expert opinions cover Brexit football hooliganism and the aging process

  Date: 20 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/expert-opinions-cover

  Professor Clare Anderson from the School of History has written an article discussing some of the positive benefits of EU membership and how it is...

• Expert opinions cover conspiracy theories James Bond Brexit and muscle disease

  Date: 14 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/expert-opinions-cover-conspiracy-theories-james-bond-brexit-and-muscle-disease

  Professor Martin Parker from the School of Management has written an article for The Conversation discussing private meetings and conspiracy theories.

• Academics and Leicester sports coaches team up in ERASMUS research project on ethics code for grassroots sport across Europe

  Date: 14 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/academics-and-leicester-sports-coaches-team-up-in-erasmus-research-project-on-ethics-code-for-grassroots-sport-across-europe

  Leicester City Football Club led the way in professional football excellence in England in 2016, but now the public focus has shifted once more to...