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LGBT month highlights changing attitudes on Campus
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/ult/2017/02/28/lgbt-month-highlights-changing-attitudes-on-campus/
Menu Close University Leadership Team Home LGBT month highlights changing attitudes on Campus LGBT month highlights changing attitudes on Campus Posted by on February 28, 2017 Whenever I see an LGBT+ event advertised on campus I feel joy that attitudes have changed so...
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Research Staff and Early Career Researchers
https://le.ac.uk/research/doctoral-college/research-staff
Information on development opportunities for staff, engagement and impact, research effectiveness, quantitative skills, qualitative skills and supporting postgraduate researchers.
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Carrie Crockett
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/cmc62/
I am a postgraduate Ph.D. researcher working in connection with the Carceral Archipelago project. My work focuses on the Russian Far East and Sakhalin during the imperial era.
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Book on post-apartheid South Africa by Leicester academic published
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/book-on-post-apartheid-south-africa-by-leicester-academic-published
Lecturer and South Africa specialist from our University Dr James Hamill has published a new book, Africa’s Lost Leader: South Africa’s Continental Role Since Apartheid.
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Student research stories featured by the BBC
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/student-research-stories-featured-by-the-bbc
Two student-led studies published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics run by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have been featured on the BBC's '10 things we didn't know last week', which highlights research about interesting and...
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The happy ending to the story of ambitious project to refurbish iconic Engineering Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/the-2018happy-ending2019-to-the-story-of-ambitious-project-to-refurbish-iconic-engineering-building
The Herculean task of replacing the iconic roof of one the world’s most revered pieces of 20th-century architecture has been captured on the page by the lead designer of the project.
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Climate change
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change
Reducing our environmental negative impact Avoid 100 Increasing our positive impact and offsetting Mitigate 200 Readying our campus for a changing world Adapt 250 Teaching and innovating for a better world Positive Impact 300 Climate Change Strategy (PDF, 463kb) Climate...
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Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth
Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.
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Report explores the value we place in arts and culture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/report-explores-the-value-we-place-in-arts-and-culture
Professor Mark Banks (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has written a report for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Cultural Value Project – a two-year project exploring how we think about the value of arts and culture to individuals...
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DNA and family history explored in public lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture
The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.