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• The Carceral Archipelago panel at the Fourth European Congress on World and Global History, 4-7 Sept

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/17/the-carceral-archipelago-panel-at-the-fourth-european-congress-on-world-and-global-history-4-7-september-2014/

  Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on September 17, 2014 The Carceral Archipelago panel in Paris During the first week of September, members of our European Research Council funded project, Carceral Archipelago, attended the Fourth European Congress on...

• About Allama Iqbal Open University

  https://le.ac.uk/enterprise/global-partnerships/aiou/about

  The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) was established in May 1974 as only the second open university in the world and first in Asia and Africa.

• £1.7m awards announced for research spanning space and smoking

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/fellowships

  The gap in the teeth of this medieval skull is a 'pipe notch' caused by constantly gripping a clay pipe.

• khn5

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/keith_nockels/

  Introducing the Library’s Inclusive Collections Group Posted by khn5 in Library and Learning Services on March 13, 2023 The University is working to develop a more inclusive curriculum, to make our teaching more inclusive and more responsive to our diverse student body.

• Academic comments on the rise of kids activities being marketed to adults

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/academic-comments-on-the-rise-of-kids2019-activities-being-marketed-to-adults

  Dr Jane Pilcher from our School of Media, Communication and Sociology has been featured in an article for The Guardian discussing why kids’ activities – such as bouncy castles and ballpits - are now being marketed to grown men and women.

• 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.

• Monkeys and chimpanzees have created their own archaeological sites dating back hundreds of years

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/monkeys-and-chimpanzees-have-created-their-own-archaeological-sites-dating-back-hundreds-of-years

  Capuchin monkeys have created their own archaeological sites in Brazil, complete with nut-cracking tools that date back at least 600-700 years ago, according to recent research – and Dr Huw Barton from the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History...

• 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.

• Are we entering a new age

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/are-we-entering-a-new-age

  Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured) from the Department of Geology has been interviewed by Academic Minute discussing the Anthropocene and whether mankind has entered a new age.

• 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.