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• Leicester spearheads development of new urban studies centre in India

  Date: 15 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/leicester-spearheads-development-of-new-urban-studies-centre-in-india

  Leicester academics will be involved in the launch of the new Centre for Urban Studies at Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) Baroda, Gujarat.

• New think tank on diversity and community engagement launches

  Date: 14 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/new-think-tank-on-diversity-and-community-engagement-launches

  Update: A video of the launch event lecture delivered by Lord Ouseley is available below A new think-tank tackling issues relating to diversity,...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 8 14 October

  Date: 13 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-8-14-october

  John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written an article for the Leicester Mercury discussing the nation's attitude towards rugby in...

• Events to explore the fight for equality power politics and inspirational figures

  Date: 9 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/the-fight-for-equality-power-politics-and-inspirational-figures

  The University is celebrating Black History Month 2015 by hosting a number of free public events throughout October.

• The fight for minority rights in the United States to be explored at event

  Date: 8 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/the-fight-for-minority-rights-forms-2018a-continuous-thread-of-american-history2019-1

  Issues of racism - from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s up until today - and how the ongoing fight for minority rights has formed...

• Graduate named Young Poet Laureate for London

  Date: 7 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/graduate-named-young-poet-laureate-for-london

  Poet Selina Nwulu, who graduated from the University with a degree in French and Italian from the School of Modern Languages, has been named Young...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 1 7 October

  Date: 7 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-1-7-october

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Provost Professor Mark Peel have written an article for The Guardian about the potential...

• Canadian Rugby World Cup visit coincides with World War One study into autograph books by servicemen

  Date: 6 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/canadian-rugby-world-cup-visit-coincides-with-world-war-one-study-into-2018autograph-books2019-by-servicemen

  As the Canadian rugby team takes on Romania in Leicester today, researchers have been examining new evidence about a very different group of...

• Over 150 academics sign up as University experts

  Date: 1 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/over-150-academics-sign-up-as-university-experts

  More than 150 Leicester academics have signed up as experts to the University's Experts Guide, helping to highlight research taking place at the...

• University building to be named after first female professor

  Date: 30 Sep 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/university-building-to-be-named-after-first-female-professor

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has announced that a building at the University is to be named after its first female professor.