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• A universe of opportunity showcased at GREAT Festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/a-universe-of-opportunity-showcased-at-great-festival-1

  We brought a small taste of Leicester to Hong Kong in March and opened up a whole universe of opportunity for Asia’s education and business community.

• Could LCFCs sporting success help kick racism into touch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/could-lcfcs-sporting-success-help-kick-racism-into-touch

  Leicester City Football Club’s phenomenal success becoming English Premier League Champions in one of Britain’s most diverse cities has ‘touched the lives’ of people from all walks of life – and could have a positive impact on tackling racism.

• Leicester Start-Up Week offers new opportunities for young businesses

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/18-start-up-week

  From 18-24 November 2019 the University of Leicester and De Montfort University along with businesses and organisations across the city will unite for the second annual Leicester Start-Up Week.

• Journey to Justice

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/journey-to-justice

  Journey to Justice exhibition on US civil rights activism, social justice activism in Leicester, and public engagement activities.

• Buy Nothing Day: Critical Management in Action

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/11/30/buy-nothing-day-critical-management-in-action/

  Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on November 30, 2013 On the day after Black Friday, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, discusses the goals and history of ‘Buy Nothing Day’.

• Health outcomes of ethnic minorities living in cities explored in national report

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/ethnic-health

  Leading professors from the University of Leicester and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities in London have provided key recommendations in the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO) annual report to enhance care for ethnic minority populations living in cities

• Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century

  Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.

• Leicester engineering Professor honoured

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-engineering-professor-honoured

  The new Head of the Department of Engineering is one of 50 of the UK’s finest engineers to be elected as new Fellows to the Royal Academy of Engineering on the day of its 40th annual general meeting.

• Museums and social justice – and why I bang on about it quite a lot.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2018/04/12/museums-and-social-justice-and-why-i-bang-on-about-it-quite-a-lot/

  Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 12, 2018   This week marked the 73 rd anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. Between 1937 and 1945, 280,000 people were imprisoned there.

• Sanctuary scholarships provide Ukraine students with extended stay in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/ukraine-students

  Four Ukrainian students who found sanctuary at the University of Leicester have extended their UK stay after receiving scholarships.