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• Former childrens laureate Michael Morpurgo to speak to packed audience

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/former-children2019s-laureate-michael-morpurgo-to-speak-to-packed-audience

  The University is to welcome the popular and award-winning children’s writer Michael Morpurgo as he delivers its 2017 Annual Creative Writing Lecture this week to a packed house.

• More plaudits for Universitys innovative Centre for Medicine

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/more-plaudits-for-university2019s-innovative-centre-for-medicine

  Our landmark Centre for Medicine building has won another award recognising its positive environmental impact – and is shortlisted for another the winner of which is soon to be announced.

• Never too late to learn what motivates mature students to return to learning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/never-too-late-to-learn-what-motivates-mature-students-to-return-to-learning

  A new project has been awarded funding from the College of Social Science Research Development Fund to investigate the motivations and outcomes for mature students who study at undergraduate level part-time.

• Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics 16 April

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-this-week

  Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has contributed an article to The Conversation looking into research by NSPCC Childline suggesting that in a poll of nearly 700 12 to 13-year-olds in the UK, one in five had viewed pornographic images...

• Speaking out against hate crime at Police event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/speaking-out-against-hate-crime-at-police-event

  Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy from the University’s Centre for Hate Studies will be joining a panel discussion about hate crime, alongside the Police Crime Commissioner for Leicester and the mother of hate crime victim Sophie Lancaster.

• Student Projects

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/biodiversity/student-projects

  Our students are passionate about their environment and are often asking how we can be more biodiversity-friendly.

• Archaeologists identify ingredients for food served during Richard IIIs reign

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/archaeologists-identify-ingredients-for-medieval-dishes-served-during-richard-iii2019s-reign

  Archaeologists from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have lent their expertise towards a series of medieval recipes designed to provide insight into the culinary dishes that may have been served up during the reign of King Richard III.

• European Convention on Human Rights

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/lw7240

  Module code: LW7240 This module introduces students to the functioning of the most effective international system for the protection of human rights yet devised, and examines some of the European Court of Human Rights’ leading jurisprudence.

• Research suggests being overweight protects heart surgery patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/research-suggests-being-overweight-protects-heart-surgery-patients

  Overweight and obese patients are less likely to die in hospital after a heart operation than patients who are a normal weight, according to a study published in the journal Circulation and led by researchers from our University.

• Work of women mathematicians at the University to be celebrated

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/work-of-women-mathematicians-at-the-university-to-be-celebrated

  The rise in female actuaries, soap films, Brexit voting patterns and stick man drawings are the very diverse subjects under scrutiny in a series of talks by women mathematicians at our University.