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• Colonial Countryside

  https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/colonial-countryside

  The Colonial Countryside project assembles authors, writers, historians and primary pupils to explore country houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections. It commissions, resources and publishes new writing.

• Mining big data

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/mining-big-data

  Major trauma or life threatening injuries is the most likely cause of fatality in children and adults up to the age of 55 in the UK, causing some 3,000 hospital deaths a year.

• Uncovering the past relationships between humans and animals

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/relationship-animals-humans

  Professor Richard Thomas researches the changing relationships between humans and animals through bone analysis, and the contemporary relevance of these findings.

• Tracking alien invaders

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/invasive-species

  Professor Mark Williams and PhD Students Stephen Himson and Rachael Holmes explain the influence of non-native plants and animals on the biosphere, and how humans can make a positive difference on the world.

• Award-winning University alumnus publishes first novel

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/award-winning-university-alumnus-publishes-first-novel

  University of Leicester alumnus, Anietie Isong graduated in 2005 with an MA in Globalisation and Communications, and has recently published his first novel, Radio Sunrise.

• Contributors

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/contributors

  Discover the list of contributors who were part of the dialect project, including funding bodies, research assistants and archives consulted.

• Shot at dawn in the Great War: Re-evaluating justice in the case of Harry Farr. By Floris Tomasini

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/10/03/shot-at-dawn/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on October 3, 2016   Today’s post looks at a re-evaluation of justice in an emblematic case study; Harry Farr who was shot for cowardice during the Great War.

• Early edition of Frankenstein in University archives gives rise to chilling story around its creation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/early-edition-of-frankenstein-in-university-archives-gives-rise-to-chilling-story-around-its-creation

  A popular character during Halloween is the shambling mass of assorted body parts known as Frankenstein’s Monster from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein – a creature who has remained a harrowing vision of what can happen when people try and create unnatural life since its...

• University of Leicester backs performances marking 50 years since Ugandan Asian exodus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/curve-uganda

  The University of Leicester has backed a series of performances which mark the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan Asian exodus.

• Leicester research supports European Parliament legislation on aggressive corporate tax planning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-research-supports-european-parliament-legislation-on-aggressive-corporate-tax-planning

  A Leicester academic has been at the heart of the European Parliament's attempts to introduce reforms to curb aggressive tax planning and avoidance by multinational enterprises.