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BLOG: what’s the wider story behind Leicester’s migration history?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/migration
Fifty years ago Leicester welcomed up to 28,000 South Asian UK passport holders from Uganda.
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Forests recovering from logging act as a source of carbon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/forests-logging-carbon
New study led by University of Leicester PhD student and Imperial College London researchers contradicts previous assumptions.
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Letter of the Law and Spirit of the Law
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/03/07/letter-of-the-law-and-spirit-of-the-law/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on March 7, 2018 So this week we learned that a UK parliamentary body had suggested that some members of a cycling team did not break the sporting laws in terms of taking drugs but they had “crossed an ethical line”.
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Scaling Out: Thinking About Sustainability, Food and Fashion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/11/11/scaling-out-thinking-about-sustainability-food-and-fashion/
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on November 11, 2015 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, Jennifer Smith Maguire , considers the outgrowths of a recent School based workshop Several years ago I bought a schizostylis...
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University of Leicester holds event celebrating city’s Caribbean community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/caribbean-event
University of Leicester will host an event to acknowledge the contributions of the city’s Caribbean community. The African Caribbean population of Leicester were among the earliest arrivals to the city from the Commonwealth in the 1950 and 1960s.
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Future of asthma research and benefits to patient health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/future-of-asthma-research-and-benefits-to-patient-health
50 years of pioneering asthma research which has benefited patients and sufferers throughout the UK will be celebrated at an event on Wednesday 20 June hosted by Leicester.
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Research on Sikh gurdwaras in England and the 18th century wallpaper trade to be presented
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/research-on-sikh-gurdwaras-in-england-and-the-18th-century-wallpaper-trade-to-be-presented
Two recent PhD graduates from the University of Leicester will be delivering lectures on their respective specialist areas of Sikh gurdwaras in England and the English wallpaper trade as part of the University’s Doctoral Inaugural Lecture series.
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Historian features in new BBC film
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/historian-features-in-new-bbc-film
A historian funded by the Wellcome Trust from our University has been involved with a new film to be shown on the BBC on Friday 23 June.
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Findings
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/findings
Learn more about the findings from the dialect project between the University of Leicester and Nottingham Trent University, including more about phonology, lexis and grammar.
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One in four of London’s green spaces breaches air quality safety limits
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/10-london-no2-levels
More than one quarter of London’s parks, playground, and open spaces exceed international safety limits for air quality, potentially putting thousands of children and vulnerable Londoners at risk.