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• Project to improve distraction burglary police detection

  Date: 19 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/project-to-improve-distraction-burglary-police-detection

  A new ‘best practice’ guide to help police forces detect cases of distraction burglary throughout the UK is being developed by our criminologists.

• New research reveals why drivers hit and run

  Date: 19 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-research-reveals-why-drivers-2018hit-and-run2019

  A new interim report by Dr Matt Hopkins and Sally Chivers from our Department of Criminology has started to identify the reasons why motorists...

• Benefits of archaeology to communities unearthed at events on campus and Bradgate Park

  Date: 18 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/benefits-of-archaeology-to-communities-unearthed-at-events-on-campus-and-bradgate-park

  The importance of archaeology and how it can benefit society and communities will be explored at a number of events hosted by the University.

• Striking skull portraits of King Richard III produced using X-rays

  Date: 13 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/striking-skull-portraits-of-king-richard-iii-produced-using-x-rays

  Dramatic new artwork of King Richard III inspired by the discovery by Leicester archaeologists is to go on display at the Andipa Gallery in London...

• Portrayal of Richard III captures spirit of the last Plantagenet

  Date: 8 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/portrayal-of-richard-iii-captures-spirit-of-the-last-plantagenet

  A college in Hawaii is holding a performance of Shakespeare’s Richard III which takes account of the discovery of the King’s remains in a unique...

• Expert opinions cover asylum laws Evelyn Waugh EU students digital activism cancer and broadcasting inequality

  Date: 8 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/expert-opinions-cover-asylum-laws-evelyn-waugh-and-eu-students

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has written an article for the Leicester Mercury on how membership of the EU is good for...

• Cultures of the Caribbean past and present in podcast

  Date: 6 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/cultures-of-the-caribbean-past-and-present-in-podcast

  A Leicester archaeologist has launched a new podcast that explores the fascinating history of the Caribbean Islands as told through its objects.

• Expert opinions cover football the Bemba conviction and Obamas visit to Cuba

  Date: 1 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/expert-opinions-cover-football-the-bemba-conviction-and-obamas-visit-to-cuba

  John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written three opinion pieces recently hosted on Think: Leicester.

• Richard III mosaic unveiled at visitor centre

  Date: 31 Mar 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/richard-iii-mosaic-unveiled-at-vistor-centre

  The King Richard III Visitor Centre unveiled a huge photo-mosaic portrait of the King to coincide with the one year anniversary of the reinterment...

• Richard III team share memories of reinterment week

  Date: 24 Mar 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/richard-iii-reunion

  Dr Turi King, of the University's Department of Genetics and Mathew Morris of University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS), have joined...