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• Success for Richard III team at prestigious event

  Date: 9 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/success-for-richard-iii-team-at-prestigious-event

  The team behind the scientific detective story of the decade, the discovery of King Richard III, proved to be a big hit at the Royal Society’s...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 2 8 July

  Date: 8 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-2-8-july

  Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga from the Centre for Systems Neuroscience has written an article for The Conversation into new research examining...

• Winners of Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 announced

  Date: 8 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/winners-of-festival-of-postgraduate-research-2015-announced

  The winners of the Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 have been announced.

• University conference celebrates publication of The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant

  Date: 3 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/university-conference-celebrates-publication-of-the-selected-works-of-margaret-oliphant

  A conference on the works of Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant, featuring literary experts from the UK, US and New Zealand hosted by the...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 18 June 1 July

  Date: 1 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-18-june-1-july

  Professor Philip Shaw from the School of English has written an opinion piece for The Conversation where, two centuries after Waterloo, he...

• Researcher suggests mainstream media is responsible for shallow coverage of antirape activism

  Date: 30 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/researcher-suggests-mainstream-media-is-responsible-for-shallow-coverage-of-anti-rape-activism

  Dr Kaitlynn Mendes (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has argued in a new book that the mainstream media often neglects...

• Richard III discovery at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition

  Date: 25 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/richard-iii-discovery-at-the-royal-society-summer-exhibition

  The team behind the scientific detective story of the decade, the discovery of King Richard III, has been selected as one of 22 exhibitors at the...

• Leicester in new study on social identity

  Date: 24 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-in-new-study-on-social-identity

  The University has been selected as the only UK university to be involved in a Europe-wide project studying social identity.

• Hidden histories revealed at Bradgate Park

  Date: 22 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/hidden-histories-revealed-at-bradgate-park

  In just the first two weeks of a five-year archaeological project at Bradgate Park, a team of students and staff from the University have...

• Barbarians from the West the Crusades seen from an Arabic perspective

  Date: 19 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/barbarians-from-the-west-the-crusades-seen-from-an-arabic-perspective

  The writings of Arabic communities during the Crusades, long overlooked by most historians in the West, will be explored in a lecture that aims to...