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• Declining local paper sales are a danger to democracy

  Date: 9 Oct 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/local-papers

  Action needs to be taken to prevent a crisis for local democracy as a result of the dramatic decline in local press readership, a Leicester...

• Professor Sally Kyd appointed first woman Head of Law

  Date: 1 Oct 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/professor-sally-kyd-appointed-first-woman-head-of-law

  Professor Sally Kyd, becomes the first woman to be appointed Head of Law at the University of Leicester.

• Digital life during the lockdown

  Date: 14 May 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/digital-apps

  Virtual social apps are helping us make do as best we can in lonely, desperate times.

• Innovative counter terrorism initiative sees one in three success rate for stop and search

  Date: 13 Dec 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/17-servator

  An innovative police counter terrorism initiative has seen a rise in the effectiveness of stop and search tactics, new research by the University...

• University response to EHRC racial harassment report

  Date: 22 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/23-university-response-to-ehrc-racial-harassment-report

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has today published a report examining racial harassment in higher education.

• Conference on stalking aims for closer integration of services

  Date: 8 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/09-stalking-conference

  Representatives from the police, CPS, health and probation services together with academics from criminology, forensic psychology and other...

• University of Leicester at the forefront of the fight against far right extremism

  Date: 18 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/19-national-action

  New research provides invaluable insight into far-right political group National Action.

• Thought piece: The sociological story of space travel

  Date: 16 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-cosmic-sociology

  Professor John Goodwin, Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice, of our School of Media, Communication and Sociology, provides a...

• Centre for Hate Studies launches new suite of digital training on hate and extremism

  Date: 23 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/24-hate-studies-digital-training-extremism

  The Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester has developed a new, free-of-charge suite of digital training modules on hate and...

• Students present youth violence solutions to the Home Office

  Date: 6 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/07-students-home-office-youth-violence-challenge

  On Wednesday 29 May, four of our students visited the Home Office to present their proposed solution to the problem of youth violence following...