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  • Music is in the genes University staff to play at charity gig

    Staff from the Department of Genetics will be performing at a charity gig in aid of Parkinson’s UK. The Histones, who formed last year to celebrate the department’s 50th anniversary, will be appearing at the Shed in Leicester on Friday 26 June.

  • Rachel Abounouar

    Rachel Abounouar passed away on the morning of 12 December 2019 after a five-year battle against cancer in which she redefined the meaning of strength, bravery and determination.  Rachel joined the University in 2009 as a tutor in the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU).

  • Global cost of dementia set to reach US $1 trillion by 2018…

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 …according to the latest annual World Alzheimer report 2015 . It also includes literature reviews on the societal impact of dementia and evidence that its rate is increasing.

  • Ruth First papers

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 This Digital archive was  funded by the School of Advanced Study to put online the papers of South African anti-apartheid activist Ruth First who was assassinated in 1982.

  • Can social media predict election results?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 A recent SSRN paper from Cardiff University developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election.

  • The Leicester and Leicestershire SCITT

    Leicester and Leicestershire SCITT is a well-established organisation offering both School Direct and School Centred routes to a PGCE, awarded by the University of Leicester.

  • Documentary highlights how humans created an artificial planet Earth

    The impact humans have had on planet Earth and how we have created an ‘artificial' planet will be explored in a new documentary by an award-winning journalist featuring Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured) from the Department of Geology.

  • University of Leicester staff blogs School of English Planning a Museum of the Bible

    Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on October 21, 2014 Professor Gordon Campbell [posted on behalf of Professor Gordon Campbell] As a profession, we are uneasy about sacred texts.

  • People

    Browse the Stanley Burton Centre's core group of staff, associate members, advisory board and PhD students, amongst others. Find out how to contact our team via telephone and email.

  • ITUC Global Rights Index 2017

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 The latest annual report from the International Trade Union Federation ranks on the worse countries to work in in terms of trade union and labour protection.

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