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• Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/scholars-discuss-the-formalisation-and-implications-of-the-anthropocene

  Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene| The Anthropocene Working Group holds meeting at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Humans have had a large impact on Earth.

• Professor Corinne Fowler releases new book Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/colonial-countryside

  University of Leicester’s Professor Corinne Fowler has released a new book published by Penguin exploring Great Britain’s countryside and its links to colonialism.

• Booker Prize-winner to join Literary Leicester Festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/literary-leicester

  Booker Prize-winner Marlon James will be headlining the revival of the Literary Leicester Festival.

• New University Ranking

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/new-university-ranking

  A ranking of world universities has placed Leicester in the UK top 20 and 226th in the world. The 2017 CWUR World University Ranking is the largest academic ranking of global universities.

• Scientists suggest significant scale of human impact on planet has changed course of Earths history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/scientists-suggest-significant-scale-of-human-impact-on-planet-has-changed-course-of-earth2019s-history

  The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the course of Earth history, an international team of scientists led by our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment has suggested.

• Winners of postgraduate presentation competition announced

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/winners-of-postgraduate-presentation-competition-announced

  The two winners of a competition that challenged postgraduate students to present their research in just three minutes have been announced.

• West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss over the last 11000 years shown in new study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-loss-over-the-last-11-000-years-shown-in-new-study

  An international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and involving our University has shown that wind-driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.

• The Anthropocene Leicester scientists respond to criticisms of new geological epoch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/the-anthropocene-leicester-scientists-respond-to-criticisms-of-new-geological-epoch

  A team of academics from our University has responded to criticisms of the proposal to formalise a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene.

• Leicester celebrates International Womens Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-celebrates-international-womens-day-1

  The University has organised a series of free events to mark International Women’s Day, which this year falls on Wednesday 8 March 2017.

• Academic year: 2016-2017

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/seminar-series/16-17

  Browse the speakers from the Centre for English Local History's seminar events, held in 2016-2017.