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Research Skills Training for Autumn 2025
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/24/research-skills-training-for-autumn-2025/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on September 24, 2025 Another term begins, and so too does our research skills training program.
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Building healthier well-connected communities
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/building-healthier-communities
Demonstrating the capacity for cultural organisations to contribute towards more equitable, fair and inclusive societies.
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Conference to examine the complex history of immigration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/conference-to-examine-immigrations-complex-history
Immigration, its causes and its consequences, may be a contentious topic in the 21st century, but it is by no means a new phenomenon.
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Pro Chancellor Dr Vijay Sharma Reflects on Service, Courage and Community for International Women’s Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/vijay-sharma-international-womens-day
To mark International Women’s Day (8 March), our Pro Chancellor for Community Engagement, Dr Vijay Sharma, reflects on what giving back truly means, how women can uplift one another and why service has guided every step of her leadership journey.
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Leicester geneticists to present at Who Do You Think You Are Live
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-geneticists-to-present-at-who-do-you-think-you-are-live
Geneticists from the University of Leicester will discuss the discovery of Richard III and genealogical research in presentations at Who Do You Think You Are? Live at the NEC Birmingham on Thursday 6 April and Friday 7 April.
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Researchers organise symposium to explore significance of music in criminal justice system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/researchers-organise-symposium-to-explore-significance-of-music-in-criminal-justice-system
Our University will be exploring the significance of music in the criminal justice system during a free public symposium taking place on Friday 23 June.
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The ‘Learning Outcomes Project’: update on activities – University of Leicester.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/11/24/projupdate/
The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. The 'Learning Outcomes Project': update on activities.
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The history of genetic fingerprinting
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/history
Read about the history of genetic fingerprinting, and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys' journey from Oxford to Leicester to beyond genetic fingerprinting.
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The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.
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Awful Things Began to Happen: Rapid Change of Ainu Homeland and Convict Labour as Seen by the Ainu,
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/01/27/awful-things-began-to-happen-rapid-change-of-ainu-homeland-and-convict-labour-as-seen-by-the-ainu-by-minako-sakata/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on January 27, 2015 The Kamikawa region is one of areas that today still has relatively a large population of the Ainu.