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• Leicester is founding signatory for new pledge to support technicians

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-is-founding-signatory-for-new-pledge-to-support-technicians

  Today, more than 35 universities and research institutions from across the UK – including the University of Leicester - have backed a pledge to support their technicians.

• Exciting placebo research to be unveiled at literary event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/placebo

  Ground-breaking research into the study of placebos will be discussed at an event at the University of Leicester's Attenborough Film Theatre celebrating some of the UK’s most exciting writers

• University represented at prestigious event honouring Her Majesty The Queen

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/university-represented-at-prestigious-event-honouring-the-queen

  Twelve staff, alumni and friends of the University will be attending a momentous event to recognise the long service of The Queen in the presence of members of the Royal Family.

• A Certain Glamour: Evelyn Waugh and Nostalgic Fashion – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/21/a-certain-glamour/

  Evelyn Waugh's 'Let Us Return to the Nineties,' and a reading of nostalgic fashion from the 1890s to the 1990s

• Looting the Archives: Joe Orton

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2016/05/13/looting-the-archives-joe-orton/

  A blog post by Dr Samantha Mitschke about the scrapbook of press reviews kept by Joe Orton about his play 'Loot'.

• The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code

  Dr Wood added: “Dickens’s shorthand consists of strings of symbols that stand for letters of the alphabet or particular words or phrases.

• History makers – first cohort of Leicester-Chongqing students graduate

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/history-makers-first-leicester-chongqing-students-graduate

  History was made in China this week, as the first students to embark on a dual honours programme from the University of Leicester and Chongqing Medical University (CQMU) graduated.

• Tackling sexual violence

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/dna-kits

  Professor Lisa Smith discusses how new DNA kits are helping to ensure survivors of sexual violence find justice.

• Economic inequality is not “bad for everyone”, new research shows – wealthier people derive happiness benefits

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/economic-inequality-wealth-people-happiness

  Increases in economic inequality raise the life satisfaction of wealthier people, while lowering the life satisfaction of people who earn less, newly published research shows.

• New European collaborative platform to combat neurodegenerative diseases

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/epnd

  Members of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) have today (Tuesday) announced that they will embark on a venture to establish a collaborative platform for efficient sample and data sharing, leveraging and linking existing European research...