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Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Team helps on farm, adopts sheep
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/11-edi-sheep
For their team away day this week, the University’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Team volunteered at Gorse Hill City Farm.
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Leicester remembers Sir Peter Hall
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/leicester-remembers-sir-peter-hall
Earlier this week, the University was saddened to hear of the death of theatre director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Sir Peter Hall (pictured). Sir Peter was an honorary graduate of the University of Leicester, receiving a Doctor of Letters degree in 1977.
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New Centre highlights research into creativity social justice and inequality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-centre-highlights-research-into-creativity-social-justice-and-inequality
A new research Centre focusing on issues of social injustice both locally and globally is being formed by academics in the Department of Geography.
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Our University marks Black History Month
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/our-university-marks-black-history-month-1
Our University has marked Black History Month 2016 with exhibitions, talks, theatre and film showings.
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Migration - coming to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/learning/migration
Migration: Coming to Leicester is intended to help students think about the different communities who live in Britain today. The oral history material has been drawn from collections held at the East Midlands Oral History Archive at the University of Leicester.
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Fieldwork services
https://le.ac.uk/ulas/our-services/fieldwork
University of Leicester Archaeological Services can offer a number of fieldwork services, including: surveys and evaluation, mitigation work, and historic building assessment.
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Researcher joins nationwide initiative to increase BAME representation in Parliament
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/researcher-joins-nationwide-initiative-to-increase-bame-representation-in-parliament
A researcher from our University will be taking part in the ‘Operation Black Vote’ MP shadowing scheme, a national initiative designed to increase the number of minority ethnic MPs in Parliament.
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A Scholarly Edition of Richard Baxters Reliquiae Baxterianae
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/a-scholarly-edition-of-richard-baxters-reliquiae-baxterianae
AHRC Research Grant September 2011-August 2014 Professor John Coffey Richard Baxter’s 800-page folio Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696) is an unrivalled primary source for early modern historical, ecclesiastical, cultural and literary studies.
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Leading engineer to discuss steps towards a silent aircraft
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/leading-engineer-to-speak-on-the-next-generation-of-silent-aircraft
Ways in which disruptive noise is being reduced by the next generation of aircrafts will be discussed by Professor Dame Ann Dowling CBE (pictured), President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cambridge during the...
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Students gear up for success at Silverstone
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/students-gear-up-for-success-at-silverstone
Leicester students have set the wheels in motion for victory at Silverstone, having already successfully reached their fundraising target via a crowdfunding campaign, in order for them to build and race their very own Formula 1 car.