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• Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library

  Date: 16 Apr 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library

  Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a...

• New research reveals the man behind Samuel Pepys’s love for portraits

  Date: 27 Mar 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/27-samuel-pepys-portraits

  Samuel Pepys, the Restoration diarist who meticulously documented his life in 1660s London, also documented himself in other ways – through portraits.

• The Stansted 15 in conversation at Leicester

  Date: 19 Mar 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/19-stansted-15-round-table

  Join two members of the Stansted 15 for a round table discussion about the rights of asylum seekers and migrants.

• University student benefits from new student finance package

  Date: 14 Jan 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/14-student-benefits-from-new-finance-package

  First-year English student becomes one of the first to benefit from generous financial support.

• Is the UK citizenship test counterproductive?

  Date: 12 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/12-uk-citizenship-test-counterproductive

  New research indicates that gaining UK citizenship leads to immigrants becoming less engaged in politics.

• Gin: The only tonic to Brexit?

  Date: 10 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/12-gin-only-tonic-to-brexit

  University of Leicester and Burleighs Gin team up to present a delicious way to engage in Brexit debate.

• Leicester academics win East Midlands Women’s Awards

  Date: 1 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/2-womens-awards

  Leicester academics win East Midlands Women’s Awards, Professor Emma Bunce and Dr Emma Parker claimed wins at last week’s ceremony

• Diverse range of events taking place at the University of Leicester to celebrate Black History Month 2018

  Date: 27 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-black-history-month

  Mental health discussions, student-led initiatives and Leicester’s hidden Black history among events marking Black History Month in the UK

• New report finds nuclear weapons and related systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack

  Date: 27 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-nuclear-report

  Report involving Dr Andrew Futter finds nuclear weapon increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack

• Evelyn Waugh project will be ‘one of the great monuments of twenty-first century literary scholarship’

  Date: 16 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/17-evelyn-waugh-praise

  Praise from Times Literary Supplement for University of Leicester project to publish novelist Evelyn Waugh's entire output.