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• Air pollution to become worlds leading cause of premature death by 2050

  Date: 23 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/air-pollution-to-become-world2019s-leading-cause-of-premature-death-by-2050

  Leading experts will be discussing prominent environmental issues - including how air pollution will become the world’s top environmental cause of...

• Origins of Pepyss famous diary unravelled

  Date: 23 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/origins-of-pepys2019s-famous-diary-unravelled

  The diary of the seventeenth-century cultural icon Samuel Pepys - which contains references to bribery, illicit sex, and criticisms of powerful...

• Paris and the rush to remember the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings

  Date: 20 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/paris-and-the-rush-to-remember-the-aftermath-of-the-2005-london-bombings

  A call for any memorial event following the Paris attacks to be ‘more sensitively handled’ than the official response to the 2005 London bombings...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 19 25 November

  Date: 20 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-19-25-november

  Dr Daniel Ladley from the Department of Economics has written an article for The Conversation discussing how cooperative groups work better than...

• Local children enjoy making money for number project

  Date: 19 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/local-children-enjoy-2018making-money2019-for-number-project

  Hundreds of local children have been drawing their own £100 notes - and thousands of these designs are on display from Saturday in the Victorian...

• Does it make a difference if a writer is male or female

  Date: 12 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/does-it-make-a-difference-if-a-writer-is-male-or-female

  A spirited debate about whether gender plays a part in literature is due to take place this week as part of the eighth Literary Leicester...

• Extraordinary artist to be celebrated at literary festival

  Date: 11 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/extraordinary-artist-to-be-celebrated-at-literary-festival

  The eighth Literary Leicester festival is to celebrate the ‘extraordinary contribution to British art’ of a Leicester artist and writer at an...

• Project to help reduce unsafe abortion death rates in disaster zones

  Date: 10 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/project-to-help-reduce-unsafe-abortion-death-rates-in-disaster-zones

  New research led by Dr Nibedita S Ray-Bennett from the School of Management will look into the sexual and reproductive health issues in...

• Oxford Professor to explore the mystery of Alices Adventures in Wonderland on the 150th anniversary of its publication

  Date: 10 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/oxford-professor-explores-the-mystery-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-on-the-150th-anniversary-of-its-publication

  On the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland award-winning biographer Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines the lure and...

• Performance trio explores the true beauty of the feminine form with a collection of poems

  Date: 5 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/performance-trio-explores-the-true-beauty-of-the-feminine-form-with-a-collection-of-poems

  An empowering performance of poetry about women and the real-life relationship they have with their bodies will re-examine the way the female form...