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Trio of honorary graduates recognised with Leicester awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/honorands1
Journalist-turned-novelist Robert Harris, who was educated in Leicestershire as a boy, was awarded a Doctorate of Letters on Friday.
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Attenborough Arts Centre secures diverse leadership funding
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/attenborough-arts-centre-secures-diverse-leadership-funding
Arts Council England is investing £100,000 to support the Attenborough Arts Centre to host a training placement for artist and producer Gurdeep Sian with a bursary.
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Leicester’s global standing recognised by rise in world university rankings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/the-world-rankings
The University of Leicester has been ranked in the top 200 universities in the world following a rigorous assessment by Times Higher Education.
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Hockey star to compete at international level
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/hockey-star-to-compete-at-international-level
A student is seeing out her final year at Leicester representing university sporting excellence as part of the 20-strong England Universities women’s hockey team.
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Transcranial Ultrasound
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/imaging/chiasm/transcranial-ultrasound
A major cause of stroke comes from embolic debris (thrombus, bubbles and pieces of plaque) that travel through the cerebral circulation and become lodged in arteries supplying the brain.
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Financial Sustainability and Climate Change
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/finance-governance-and-enterprise/financial-sustainability-and-climate-change
The need to strengthen financial markets, make them more resilient to challenges resulting from climate change and able to support green transformation requires in-depth research.
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Working at home is ‘a double-edged sword’, new research reveals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/home-working
New research conducted by academics at the Universities of Leicester and Exeter has revealed how working at home can be ‘a double-edged sword’.
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University-led event marks Baby Loss Awareness Week
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/baby-loss-awareness-leicester
University of Leicester experts are sharing their work on perinatal care as part of Baby Loss Awareness Week
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Campus Leagues
https://le.ac.uk/sports/sport-programmes/campus-league
Find out more about University of Leicester Campus League
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Researcher suggests mainstream media is responsible for shallow coverage of antirape activism
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/researcher-suggests-mainstream-media-is-responsible-for-shallow-coverage-of-anti-rape-activism
Dr Kaitlynn Mendes (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has argued in a new book that the mainstream media often neglects anti-rape activism by delivering ‘shallow’ coverage.