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Leicesters EU students boost local jobs and the economy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/leicesters-eu-students-boost-local-jobs-and-the-economy
EU students at universities in Leicester and across the East Midlands generate £143m for the region’s economy and support 1,341 jobs, according to analysis from Universities UK. The new analysis looks at the impact of EU students across all regions and nations of the UK.
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Student attends European film premiere as part of degree placement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/student-attends-european-film-premiere-as-part-of-degree-placement
A student has been given the opportunity to meet veterans of the entertainment industry and attend a European blockbuster film premiere as part of their degree studies at our University.
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Before Highcross: Vote now for research teams that solved Leicester’s shopping centre history mysteries
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/highcross-dig
Archaeologists who examined the ground beneath Leicester’s shopping mall district are up for a research award – and they need your vote.
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Desert Island Discs more than just a resource for good music
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/desert-island-discs-more-than-just-a-resource-for-good-music
On Wednesday 16 May Drs Nick Smith and Cathleen Waters from the University’s School of Arts will be discussing the results of their research paper which analyses the radio archives of Desert Island Discs. Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Visions of Leicester campus feature in exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/visions-of-leicester-campus-feature-in-exhibition
The Attenborough Arts Centre is hosting a solo exhibition by Leicester-based Maria Collingham, featuring paintings that portray our University. Maria is currently exhibiting a selection of landscape paintings until 6 March.
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University of Leicester Staff Blogs School of English New Voices Wagon Project Remarkable Experience
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/07/04/new-voices-wagon-project-remarkable-experience/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on July 4, 2014 By Eshara Wijetunge During my final year as an undergraduate studying History of Art and English, I was involved in the New Voices Wagon Project ( NVWP ), a Leicester-based project that aims to...
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Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/author/ejl22/
Emma Battell Lowman is Lecturer in the History of the Americas at the University of Hertfordshire and is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History where she continues her postdoctoral research as a member of the Harnessing the Criminal...
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Renowned theatre cast including actor Ralph Fiennes pay tribute to Leicester in their reimagining of Shakespeares Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/renowned-theatre-cast-including-actor-ralph-fiennes-pay-tribute-to-leicester-in-their-reimagining-of-shakespeares-richard-iii
A stellar acting cast featuring Hollywood stars has paid homage to our University in its unconventional retelling of Shakespeare's Richard III.
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Drugs and Displacement in Contemporary Colombian Culture
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/sp2036
Module code: SP2036 This module will introduce you to aspects of contemporary Colombian culture through an examination of literary and cinematic texts.
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Leicester among worlds most influential for asthma research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-among-2018world2019s-most-influential2019-for-asthma-research
A study of the most influential research in asthma in the last 50 years from around the world found that the University of Leicester and Leicester’s Hospitals asthma research team were in the top 3 worldwide.