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New book imagines society based on animal rights
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/animal-rights-book
What are Animal Rights For? has been published by University of Leicester politics expert Dr Steve Cooke, explaining the nature, function, purpose, and limitations of animal rights for a public audience.
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Psychology students venture overseas for much desired work experience
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/psychology-students-venture-overseas-for-much-desired-work-experience
Psychology students venture overseas for much desired work experience Psychology students venture overseas for much desired work experience 1462|Leicester students, Kona Rogers and Ryan Selby, gain crucial experience participating in a Mental Health Placement with SLV.
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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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Easy access for local people to university libraries
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/libraries
Universities in Leicester and Leicestershire are opening up their libraries to public users.
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Home to Joe Orton and Sue Townsend collections receives national accreditation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/archive
An archive service which holds the collections of Leicester literary greats, Joe Orton and Sue Townsend, has received approval from The National Archives.
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University of Leicester space scientist appointed trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/emma-bunce-rmg
Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics Emma Bunce has worked on multiple international space missions and has been appointed a trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich, including the ‘birthplace of modern astronomy’, the Royal Observatory Greenwich
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University of Leicester celebrates a century of science with chemistry and physics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/celebrate-century-science-chemistry-physics
School of Physics and Astronomy and School of Chemistry mark 100-year anniversary in 2025, with Centenary celebrations on 17 May seeing alumni return to campus and share memories
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Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s - 1948
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/jewish-dress-migration-and-belonging-1880s-1948
History of Jewish Dress and migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Palestine/Israel
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New Innovation Hub at our University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/new-innovation-hub-at-our-university
A multi-million pound centre to foster and accelerate the next generation of innovators and innovations is being established in Leicester at our University. The Leicester Innovation Hub, a £5.
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New Voices Wagon Project
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/projects/new-voices
Find out more about the innovative project at the Centre for New Writing, promoting reading and writing amongst migrant communities, particularly refugees.