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• University of Leicester bestows honour on English student-turned-inspiring-author

  Date: 20 Jan 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/jeffrey-boakye

  A University of Leicester graduate who has enjoyed a successful career as an author, broadcaster and educator has been awarded an honorary degree...

• Dickens codebreakers recognised at Higher Education ‘Oscars’

  Date: 18 Nov 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/the-awards-2022

  The Dickens Code project, led by the University of Leicester in collaboration with the University of Foggia, takes home a Times Higher Education...

• Engaging the digital generation in democracy: new insights presented by Leicester experts

  Date: 7 Nov 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/digigen-conference

  Research by University of Leicester explores how a digitally-literate younger generation becomes involved in politics through digital technology.

• University of Leicester celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ 

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/adrian-mole

  University of Leicester is staging a new exhibition and series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged...

• University of Leicester appoints Science Museum Principal Curator for key leadership post

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/tilly-blyth

  The Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator will join the University of Leicester as its new Head of the School of Museum Studies.

• BBC Book of the Week author set to inspire our English students

  Date: 16 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/kit-de-waal-english-leicester

  The author of this week’s BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week will be inspiring students on the University of Leicester’s English course, from September.

• BBC drama novelist residency set to inspire English students

  Date: 9 Jun 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/kit-de-waal

  The novelist behind a new uplifting BBC television drama will be sharing the skills behind her writing with students at the University of Leicester.

• Read all about it! Journalism students to work side-by-side with Leicester reporters

  Date: 26 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-mercury

  Leicester’s next generation of journalists will gain first-hand experience of local reporting as a result of a new partnership between the...

• Best-selling crime author visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”!

  Date: 29 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/val-mcdermid

  Best-selling crime author Val McDermid visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”

• Leicester author shares untold story of Mary Attenborough

  Date: 25 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/mary-attenborough

  A Leicester historian says he is ‘absolutely certain’ that Mary Attenborough would have been front and centre in helping refugees and asylum...