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• Leicester partners with Thailand with support of Thai Prime Minister, British Ambassador and Leicester City Football Club

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/leicester-partners-with-thai-prime-minister-british-ambassador-leicester-city-football-club

  The University of Leicester has marked its commitment to Thailand and Vietnam through a series of partnership agreements that will pave the way for Thai students to study in Leicester, open the door to research collaborations and promote bilateral knowledge exchange.

• UK governments urged to reconsider the practice of collective worship and religious observance in schools

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/uk-governments-urged-to-reconsider-the-practice-of-collective-worship-and-religious-observance-in-schools

  The majority of schools in the UK are required by law to organise acts of collective worship (England, Northern Ireland, Wales) or religious observance (Scotland) for their pupils - but what is the purpose of collective worship/religious observance? A report launched today...

• Sludge in Healthcare

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/10/18/82/

  Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on October 18, 2018   This week Richard Thaler, who wrote ‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness  ’, published “Nudge, Not Sludge” in Science .

• University of Leicester hosts 100th birthday festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/changemakers-festival

  The University of Leicester welcomed students, staff, alumni and guests from the local community on Saturday in celebration of the University’s Centenary.

• University of Leicester historian bestowed British Academy honour

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/clare-anderson

  A University of Leicester expert on imperial and global history has been recognised for their contribution to the humanities and social sciences.

• The Two Fredericks: A snapshot of male intimacy in prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/09/30/the-two-fredericks-cockatoo-island/

  Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on September 30, 2016 In the 1840s, campaigners for the abolition of convict transportation engaged in a campaign of scare-mongering about the prevalence of sexual acts between male convicts (dubbed “unnatural acts”).

• 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.

• Forbes names Leicester academic in list of prodigious stars changing the world

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/forbes-names-leicester-academic-in-list-of-prodigious-stars-changing-the-world

  A researcher from our Department of Geology has been named to Forbes’ second annual ‘30 Under 30 Europe’ list in the Science and Healthcare Category.

• Leicester academic praises scheme allowing working class children to shine

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-academic-praises-scheme-allowing-working-class-children-to-shine

  A University of Leicester scientist has discussed his involvement with an educational opportunities programme, organised by The Sutton Trust, that inspired him to pursue his studies in planetary science.

• Chronology of DNA fingerprinting at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/chronology

  Explore Professor Jeffreys research journey in the development of DNA fingerprinting from 1977 to the present day.