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• 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.

• 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.

• Chinese Prisoners on Cockatoo Island, Sydney

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/06/21/chinese-prisoners-cockatoo-island/

  Chinese prisoners and former gold-diggers who were imprisoned on Cockatoo Island in Sydney (New South Wales). Explores how they were disadvantaged within the colonial justice system and how they resisted imprisonment.

• 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.

• Motor Cities

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/motor-cities

  Leverhulme Research Project Grant (£154,757) October 2011-September 2014 Professor Simon Gunn and Dr Susan Townsend (University of Nottingham) In the last half century the automobile has transformed life in cities across much of the globe, offering unprecedented freedom...

• 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.

• Minister meets life science and space businesses

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/18-minister-visit

  Minister meets life science and space businesses Cabinet Minister Brandon Lewis meets students and staff from the University 600|Cabinet Minister Brandon Lewis, was in Leicester today (Thursday 18 October) visiting the University of Leicester and the National Space Centre,...

• Tackling the climate crisis from space: Leicester puts quality data at the forefront of COP28 agenda

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/cop28-space-climate

  Three University of Leicester experts will attend COP28 in Dubai to show the value of space technology in tackling climate change

• 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.

• 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.