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Salon event to explore creativity activism and social change at The Exchange Bar
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/salon-event-to-explore-creativity-activism-and-social-change-at-the-exchange-bar
The role of creativity and creative production in enacting social change will be explored at a public salon event at The Exchange Bar in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter.
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Student research project hopes to help tackle undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/student-research-project-hopes-to-help-tackle-undernutrition-in-sub-saharan-africa
Exchange students studying on the University of Leicester’s Natural Sciences programme have been involved in a research project investigate major public health concerns in developing nations, including sub-Saharan Africa.
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Success for student entrepreneur in national space challenge competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/success-for-student-entrepreneur-in-national-space-challenge-competition
A Leicester student is among only nine young space entrepreneurs to have won a share of £50K for innovative ideas on how to use satellite data to improve life on Earth.
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Project to investigate how offenders engage with treatment in different settings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/project-to-investigate-how-offenders-engage-with-treatment-in-different-settings
Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship that will investigate why offenders do and do not engage with treatment in prison, forensic hospital and community settings. As many as 86% of offenders do not successfully complete rehabilitation programmes.
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Section 8 - University Staff
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/documents/statutes/staff
Read Section 8 of our Statutes, entitled University Staff. This section outlines staff procedures of dismissal, disciplinary action and freedom of speech.
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Mary Curnock Cook CBE
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/council/membership/mary-curnock-cook
Building on a successful executive career, leading strategic transformation and growth, Mary has a portfolio of non-executive education-related roles including chairing the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology and Pearson’s UK qualifications business, and as a...
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Building dynamic, inclusive and socially purposeful museums and archives
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/building-inclusive-museums
In collaboration with NCK, the Nordic–Baltic research and development centre based in Östersund, Sweden, RCMG offered a week-long course in October 2016 which explored how museums and archives can become more dynamic, inclusive and socially purposeful organisations.
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Nuclear expert sheds light on ‘War Factories’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/war-factories
A nuclear expert from the University of Leicester has featured on a new UKTV documentary covering the industry of conflict. Andrew Futter is a Professor of International Politics and a leading academic in the politics of nuclear weapons.
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Innovative Leicester centre spearheads international initiative
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/empathy-network
An international network which is driving forward empathic healthcare across the world has staged its first ever meeting in Leicester
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University sponsored Lifetime Achievement award honours Freeport bid Chair
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/women-in-business-awards
At the LeicestershireLive Women in Business Awards 2021, the University of Leicester sponsored Lifetime Achievement award was presented to Penny Coates, who chaired the successful bid to create an East Midlands Freeport, by Dr Navdeep Athwal, Lecturer in Marketing.