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Project to investigate how offenders engage with treatment in different settings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/project-to-investigate-how-offenders-engage-with-treatment-in-different-settings
Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship that will investigate why offenders do and do not engage with treatment in prison,...
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Sensational discovery of previously unseen Adrian Mole diary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/sensational-discovery-of-previously-unseen-adrian-mole-diary
Teenage intellectual Mole achieved fame in the 1980s for his astute, observational journal cataloguing middle class domestic life in a Leicester...
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Leicester expert provides research to House of Commons on homophobia in sport
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-expert-provides-research-to-house-of-commons-on-homophobia-in-sport
A University expert from the Department of Media, Communications and Sociology has given evidence to a House of Commons Select Committee as part...
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Experts respond to triggering of Article 50 and Brexit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/experts-respond-to-triggering-of-article-50-and-brexit
Over the last year, academics from across the University have been discussing Brexit and the future of the UK once we leave the European Union.
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Expert opinions cover social mobility Martin McGuinness Chinas antiship missiles and postBrexit immigration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/expert-opinions-cover-social-mobility-martin-mcguinness-china2019s-anti-ship-missiles-and-post-brexit-immigration
Martin Perfect, Employer Relationship Manager in the University's Career Development Service, has written an article discussing initiatives to...
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University recognises human rights campaigner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/university-recognises-human-rights-campaigner
Our University has recognised the outstanding contribution of one of its alumni to exposing and protecting against human rights abuses worldwide.
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Research to explore socioeconomic rights and global justice movements
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/research-to-explore-socioeconomic-rights-and-global-justice-movements
Joe Wills (pictured) from our School of Law is to publish a new book investigating socioeconomic rights and global justice movements on Thursday...
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The notsosecret birthday party of Adrian Mole aged 50
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/the-not-so-secret-birthday-party-of-adrian-mole-aged-50-1
Well, Adrian himself won’t – obviously – but some of those involved with his story over the years, and many of his keenest fans, will gather at...
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Legal implications of Britains wars explored in research seminar
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/legal-implications-of-britain2019s-wars-explored-in-research-seminar
A prominent legal expert will lead a free public research seminar on the legal implications of decisions to use British military force abroad on...
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How forensic statistics nailed the identity of the Last Plantagenet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/how-forensic-statistics-nailed-the-identity-of-the-2018last-plantagenet2019
A Leicester historian who carried out a genealogical study of King Richard III will give a talk on Tuesday 28 March at the University’s Centre for...