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• Political Cartoons in the Classroom: The ‘Simple View of Reading’ Approach

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/03/02/political-cartoons-in-the-classroom-the-simple-view-of-reading-approach/

  Blog on reading political cartoons in the classroom

• New heart attack genes discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-heart-attack-genes-discovered

  Scientists have discovered two new genes which are associated with a person’s risk of coronary heart disease in an international collaboration involving BHF and NIHR-funded researchers. The findings could lead to new statin-like treatments to prevent heart attacks.

• New community counting materials for children launched

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/new-community-counting-materials-for-children-launched

  Maths materials featuring local schoolchildren, adults and celebrities will be launched at an event at the University of Leicester on Tuesday 4 July.

• Journeys festival makes a stop off at Attenborough Arts Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/journeys-festival-makes-a-stop-at-attenborough-arts-centre

  The Attenborough Arts Centre is hosting an event as part of the ArtReach's 'Journeys' festival, which celebrates the artistic talents of refugee and asylum seeker artists, sharing refugee stories through great art and culture.

• Leicester academic co-authors new book on young people and the anti-apartheid protest

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-academic-co-authors-new-book-on-young-people-and-the-anti-apartheid-protest

  Dr Gavin Brown, Associate Professor in Human Geography, has co-written a book about young people's involvement with the anti-apartheid movement.

• Cosmic Coffee to deliver creative insights at October event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/cosmic-coffee-creative-insights-october-event-770

  Andrew Fletcher of the Attenborough Arts Centre, local artist Matt Turner and James Burkmar from LCB Depot will speak at Space Park Leicester on 1 October

• The White Boffin's Burden

  https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/white-boffin-burden

  Find out more about the Centre for New Writing's commissioned piece which looks into the perceptions of academics and research in ODA (official development assistance) countries vs academics and research in Britain.

• Director appointed to lead new Institute for Policy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/institute-policy

  The University of Leicester has appointed Professor Neil Chakraborti as the founding Director of the new Institute for Policy at Leicester which will officially launch in early 2024.

• TEDxLeicester to take satellite technology one step beyond

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/tedxleicester-to-take-satellite-technology-2018one-step-beyond2019

  Some of the innovative and cutting-edge applications that satellite technology and its data are being put to will be explored in a TEDxLeicester event in partnership with the University of Leicester and the National Space Centre.

• Olive Banks (1923-2006)

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/inspirational-women/olive-banks

  “Any attempt to raise feminist arguments was met with indifference if not outright hostility, and the paucity of women academics in general increased my feeling of isolation.