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• Speaker biographies

  https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/edi-in-practice/conferences-and-meetings/medical-schools-uk-edi-meeting/speaker-biographies

  Keynote address: Equality and Equity: reflections on language, assumptions and actions Professor Nisreen Alwan Professor Nisreen Alwan is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at University Hospital...

• Black Mischief in the Albatross Modern Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2019/05/09/black-mischief-in-the-albatross-modern-library/

  Posted by in Waugh and Words on May 9, 2019 Modernist scholar and editor of our forthcoming Black Mischief volume Dr Naomi Milthorpe has been researching with our project partners at the Harry Ransom Center.

• The Two Fredericks: A snapshot of male intimacy in prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/09/30/the-two-fredericks-cockatoo-island/

  Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on September 30, 2016 In the 1840s, campaigners for the abolition of convict transportation engaged in a campaign of scare-mongering about the prevalence of sexual acts between male convicts (dubbed “unnatural acts”).

• Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/10/31/transporting-convicts-from-new-zealand-to-van-diemens-land/

  Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on October 31, 2017 By Dr Kristyn Harman Senior Lecturer in History, University of Tasmania   Like many New Zealanders, I grew up hearing stories about the Australian penal colonies, particularly anecdotes of London...

• Attitudes to Convict Ancestry: Documentary Review

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/12/02/convict-ancestry-documentary/

  Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on December 2, 2016 In this blog post I review the documentary ‘A Secret History of my Family: Gadbury Sisters’ , which aired in 2016, and discuss how it reflects changing attitudes to convict ancestry amongst British and...

• Archaeological internship

  https://le.ac.uk/ulas/about/work-placements/internship

  ULAS offers a 21 hour internship, intended for those who are interested in gaining archaeological post-excavation experience.

• Astronomers discover four new ‘hot Jupiters’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/hot-jupiters

  An international team of space scientists have discovered four new ‘hot Jupiters’ in our galaxy. University of Leicester PhD researcher Rosanna Tilbrook led and co-authored the study alongside colleagues in the UK, Switzerland, Chile, Germany, the USA and South Africa.

• Award-winning doctor to speak at empathic healthcare event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/empathy-course-leicester-stoney-gate

  Award-winning doctor will speak at an innovative empathic healthcare course

• University of Leicester honours charity chief for raising the ambitions of hundreds of thousands of young people

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/university-leicester-honours-charity-chief-raising-ambitions-hundreds-thousands-young-people

  The co-founder of a social mobility charity devoted to raising young people’s educational aspirations has received an honorary award from the University of Leicester.

• New £2.9 million project to develop rehabilitation programme for people with multiple long-term conditions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/perform

  Researchers in Leicester are developing a new programme to provide exercise-based rehabilitation to people living with multiple long-term health conditions.