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Ian Bradley
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/ian-bradley
It is with great regret that we have learned of the death of Ian Bradley, a member of the Economics Department for 40 years. Martin Hoskins with help from Deborah, Derek Deadman and Peter Jackson has written the tribute below.
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Greater empathy reduces problems with patient care
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/howick
Greater levels of compassion from hospital and clinical staff can reduce persistent problems with patient care says a University expert in empathy
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Surveillance and Power – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/21/the-protection-of-knowledge-as-the-production-of-ignorance/
Posted by Tomasz Wisniewski in School of Business Blog on October 21, 2014 Geoff Lightfoot and Tomasz Wisniewski, Senior Lecturers in the School’s Finance and Accounting Group, describe information asymmetry as a politically prevalent predicament about which we should all be...
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Social Justice Plaques: History, Heritage and Social Justice
https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/pre-16/social-justice-plaques
We are delighted to be running our Social Justice Plaques programme again this year, which allows Year 9 students to engage deeply in the study of History, Heritage and Commemoration, and in the idea of Social Justice.
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Munashe tackles the competition to join England Universities Rugby Team
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/munashe-tackles-the-competition-to-join-england-universities-rugby-team-1
MChem student and athlete Munashe Fumhanda has expressed his excitement at being selected to join the England Universities Rugby League team. Munashe started playing rugby at around the age of 8, which eventually led to him representing South Yorkshire competitively.
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University of Leicester history expert helps Strictly star solve family murder mystery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/university-leicester-history-strictly-amy-dowden-solve-family-murder-mystery
A history expert from the University of Leicester will help Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden solve a family murder mystery on hit BBC television show Who Do You Think You Are?
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Heresy and Orthodoxy in the works of Bede
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/heresy-and-orthodoxy-in-the-works-of-bede
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (£224,198) September 2010 - August 2013 Dr Peter Darby Dr Peter Darby has been awarded a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out a research project ‘Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Works of Bede’. Bede (c.
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Research initiative to explore how media can help romance blossom in post-disaster environments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/research-initiative-to-explore-how-media-can-help-romance-blossom-in-post-disaster-environments
Media Cultures, a new research initiative that explores the role of the media in our shared cultural lives, will hold its official launch at a free public event on Thursday 16 June between 4.00-6.30pm at Bankfield House.
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University remembers fallen soldier who played a part in its founding
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-remembers-fallen-soldier-who-played-a-part-in-its-founding
The story of a brave Leicester officer during the First World War is being retold by our University on the anniversary of his death on 15 October.
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Leicester scientists describe astronomical phenomenon never witnessed before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-scientists-describe-2018astronomical-phenomenon-never-witnessed-before2019
Researchers from our University have contributed to a simultaneous global announcement - in London, Washington DC, and Munich - of the discovery and results from the joint detection of gravitational waves and light from the collision of a pair of mutually...