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• New scientific technique helps catch wildlife criminals

  Date: 12 Feb 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/peregrine-falcon

  DNA tests co-developed by scientists from the University of Leicester and Scotland’s wildlife forensic lab are helping to catch criminals involved...

• Medieval prayer guide written by woman to be published for the first time

  Date: 29 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/medieval-women

  Read more about Dr Ben Parson's new book, Two Middle English Prayer Cycles: Holkham Prayers and Meditations and Simon Appulby’s Fruyte of Redempcyon

• Prison noise examined in new book from Leicester alumnus

  Date: 24 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/prison-study

  A researcher has used her time spent behind bars while at the University of Leicester as the basis for a book on the effect of sound in prisons.

• Sold-out true crime themed wine tasting evening returns to Cardiff this Valentine’s Day

  Date: 23 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/wine-and-crime

  Read more about the new true crime event hosted by Dr Angela Muir, Director of the Centre for Regional and Local History

• Super rare and venomous centipede found in University of Leicester academic’s home

  Date: 22 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/centipede

  Explore the intriguing discovery of Scutigera coleoptrata, the fastest-moving centipede in the world, in Nottinghamshire, UK.

• University of Leicester graduate-turned-diplomat returns to receive honorary award

  Date: 18 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/honorand-karen-mae-hill

  A diplomat who used her degree as a springboard to a successful career has returned to the University of Leicester to receive an Honorary Doctorate.

• Victim of racist abuse joins study to explore racism in rural England

  Date: 11 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/rural-racism

  A university researcher who’s been on the receiving end of targeted racist abuse in the English countryside is part of a University of Leicester...

• Challenge of climate justice highlighted by new book on Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

  Date: 5 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/climate-justice

  The demand for a just and ethical transition to a decarbonised world faces major barriers in countries like Venezuela according to a new book by a...

• Award-winning University of Leicester film Harms of Hate revisited a decade on

  Date: 18 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/harms-of-hate

  University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies will revisit its award-winning short film The Harms of Hate, a decade on.

• International experts debate safe space future for humanity at University of Leicester

  Date: 13 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/space-security-conference

  Space Park Leicester hosted a successful conference on space security and safety.