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  • Leicester City Graduate Project earns FSB local government prize

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/city-graduate-project-award

    A flagship internship scheme encouraging students from Leicester’s two universities to stay and work in the city after they graduate has been recognised as one of the best regional initiatives at a national award ceremony.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • David Wilson Library changes for 2023-24

    https://le.ac.uk/library/news/david-wilson-library-changes-for-2023-24

    If you're returning to the David Wilson Library for the first time since the Summer, you will notice a few changes to areas of the building for the start of the academic year.

  • School of Criminology launches new podcast to tackle hate crime

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/hidden-hate-podcast

    A new podcast series created by the University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies takes a deep dive into the causes behind hate online and offline and how they can be tackled.

  • Obituary: Sir Michael Atiyah

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/14-obituary-sir-michael-atiyah

    Sir Michael Atiyah, who was widely regarded as Britain’s greatest mathematician, has died aged 89. Sir Michael was Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 1995 and 2005.

  • The sting of the bling

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/sustainable-metal-extraction

    Experts Professor Gawen Jenkin and Dr Dan Smith explain the importance of pursuing sustainable methods of metal extraction in order to tackle climate change.

  • Fantasy Literature and the Middle Ages

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3112

    Module code: EN3112 George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO series Game of Thrones have recently inspired more people than ever before to read and watch fantasy inspired by the Middle Ages. Martin builds on (and in reaction to) J. R. R.

  • Risk calculator helps GPs predict which kidney disease patients need hospital care

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-kidney-study

    A new study has discovered a way to help GPs predict which people with kidney disease are more likely to go on to develop kidney failure and need dialysis or a kidney transplant in the future.

  • Critical Management in Action: “Social Media Free Day”

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/03/21/critical-management-in-action-social-media-free-day/

    Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on March 21, 2014 Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, outlines the motivation behind an experiment-in-abstinence undertaken by some of her freshman tutees.

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