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• Leicester is a safe place to study

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/professional-services/estates/security/leicester-safe-study

  The University of Leicester is a safe place to work and study and we have a 24/7 security team that work across all University sites in order to keep you safe. You will see them in their high-visibility uniform regularly patrolling campus and the surrounding area.

• Five potential new businesses as University commercialisation initiative draws to a close

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/ventureversity-final

  VentureVersity Live on 27 November showcased 11 projects turning university intellectual property into commercially viable ventures, marking the culmination of a year-long collaboration between the University of Leicester, De Montfort University, and Loughborough University

• Richard III's diet and lifestyle

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/what-we-know-now/diet-and-lifestyle

  By measuring the different isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium preserved in Richard III's skeleton, we can find out about the types of food and drink he consumed, as well as where he lived.

• Orwell vs Kafka

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/10/orwell-vs-kafka/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2024 A suite of special programmes broadcast over eight days on BBC Radio 4 comprising a reading of 1984, six 30-minute documentaries on the authors and the relevance of their writing today...

• Delivering Sexual Harassment

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/01/18/delivering-sexual-harassment/

  Posted by Jo B in School of Business Blog on January 18, 2018   In our first blog of the new year, Professor Jo Brewis explores the ways in which the gig economy is providing an insidious new means for women to be exposed to sexual harassment.

• Leicester scientist features in Canadian-British documentary providing new insights into life and death of Jumbo the elephant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-scientist-features-in-canadian-british-documentary-providing-new-insights-into-life-and-death-of-jumbo-the-elephant

  New insights into the life and mysterious death of Jumbo the elephant – a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the film ‘Dumbo’ – will be revealed in an international documentary featuring Dr Richard Thomas (pictured) from our School of...

• Calcium is key to age-related memory loss

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/09-presynaptic-calcium

  Research in our Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour is offering new clues into how and why cognitive functions such as memory and learning become impaired with age.

• UK university returns century-old gesture by gifting books to Smithsonian

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/smithsonian

  The University of Leicester returned a 100-year-old gesture from the Smithsonian during a ceremony to cement the institutions’ transatlantic partnership.

• Potatoes and Peppa Pig: Young writers channel Leicester playwright

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/edna-welthorpe-winners

  A spoof letter of complaint written by a London school pupil has won a competition inspired by Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

• The Limits of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Will Davies*

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/04/15/the-limits-of-neoliberalism-an-interview-with-will-davies/

  Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on April 15, 2015   Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book , what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work? WD: The main question I had, following on from...