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Michael Baatz
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/michael-baatz
Obituary of the death of Michael Baatz who was University Registrar from 1973 to 1983.
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Cultural History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2235
Module code: HS2235 Module Outline As one of the pioneers of cultural history, Raymond Williams, once said “culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language”.
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Sir Maurice Shock LLD 19262018
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/sir-maurice-shock-lld-1926-2018
Sir Maurice, who was also an honorary graduate of the University, was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List in 1988 in recognition of his services to Leicester and the wider academic community.
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Whistleblowing and why it matters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/copy_of_whistleblowing-2013-and-why-it-matters
Update: a recording of the lecture by Professor Mark Stein is available here. Update: a webinar on whistleblowing with Dame Ruth Silver and Professor Mark Stein is now available.
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Leicester involved in Earth Observation project to protect tropical forests worldwide
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-involved-in-earth-observation-project-to-protect-tropical-forests-worldwide
Our University is involved in a new £15m project funded by the UK Space Agency to help to protect tropical forests throughout the world.
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Leicester research team receives 25k to continue investigations into rare disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-research-team-receives-ps25k-to-continue-investigations-into-rare-disease
A team of scientists and clinicians from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (formerly Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit) have received a cheque for £25,000 to continue its ground breaking research into the cardiovascular disease, Spontaneous...
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Leicester ranked in UK top five for entrepreneurial activity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-ranked-in-uk-top-five-for-entrepreneurial-activity
Leicester is ranked among the top five cities in the UK for MBA entrepreneurs. Instant Offices has produced a ranking of the ten best cities for MBA entrepreneurs in which Leicester is placed fourth.
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Conservation quest to identify Leicesters wildlife and protect wild hedgehogs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/conservation-quest-to-identify-wildlife-ranging-from-bats-to-butterflies
Staff and students will be embarking on a quest - along with eager members of the public - to identify a wide range of wildlife in Leicestershire as part of Leicester’s annual wildlife survey from Friday 12 May, as Bioblitz returns for its eighth year.
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University lecturer honoured with 2023 British Psychological Society Award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/spiller
Dr Jayne Spiller has received the Neil O’Connor Award for her research into sleep and its association with behavioural and emotional symptoms in children born extremely preterm
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Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy
The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website. Tor Clark, a former newspaper editor and political journalist and now Associate Professor in Journalism, was interviewed by Politics.