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• Attitudes to Convict Ancestry: Documentary Review

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/12/02/convict-ancestry-documentary/

  Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on December 2, 2016 In this blog post I review the documentary ‘A Secret History of my Family: Gadbury Sisters’ , which aired in 2016, and discuss how it reflects changing attitudes to convict ancestry amongst British and...

• Distance learning opportunities

  https://le.ac.uk/cite/sanctuary-seekers-unit/initiatives/distance-learning

  HyPIR’s DL Master’s sanctuary scholarships were also the subject of doctoral research carried out by Dr Gabi Witthaus, and a corresponding paper entitled 'Refugees and Online Engagement in Higher Education: A Capabilitarian Model'.

• Explosive moment in the media

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/explosive-moment-in-the-media

  University geologist Dr David Hawthorn, who set up equipment near the former city council HQ to record the effects of the controlled demolition of the site, has published his results. Dr David Hawthorn is a seismologist in our Department of Geology.

• Leicester Cathedral remembers founding of the University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/25-leicester-cathedral-remembers-founding-of-the-university

  Lecture on University of Leicester’s origins in the Great War will form part of remembrance events at Leicester Cathedral

• Leicester society wins international award for medical education through pandemic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/medall-award

  A team of Leicester medical students has been recognised for going above and beyond to educate healthcare professionals despite the challenges of COVID-19.

• Student support campaign raises £1,000 for local homeless charity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/21-bridge

  The University of Leicester’s work alongside The Bridge Homelessness to Hope has had a huge impact on students this autumn, and helped raise more than £1,000 for local rough sleepers.

• COP26: Funding boost for new space mission to monitor carbon

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

  The new funding is to complete the build and testing of the satellite, led by Thales Alenia Space at the RAL Space assembly and test facilities on the Harwell Space Cluster, in Oxfordshire, and for NCEO experts at the universities of Leicester and Edinburgh to translate...

• Declan spends amazing Year in Industry

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/declan-spends-2018amazing2019-year-in-industry

  A student from the School Of Business has shared the story of his “amazing” year in industry working for a global entertainment brand.

• Pope Franciss appeal for Poland to welcome refugees may remain unanswered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2018pope-francis2019s-appeal-for-poland-to-welcome-refugees-may-remain-unanswered2019

  Pope Francis’s appeal to Polish people to welcome refugees into the country and to embrace EU integration may remain unanswered, according to an expert from the Department of Politics and International Relations.

• University pledges to offer a hundred Sanctuary Awards to displaced people worldwide

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/distance-learning

  Read more about University of Leicester offering one hundred distance learning scholarships to displaced people across the world.