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• Winners of Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 announced

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/winners-of-festival-of-postgraduate-research-2015-announced

  The winners of the Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 have been announced. During the Festival our University gets to showcase the best of its research student talent and this year the standard of entries was very high.

• Free online course to tackle ethically unsound research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/free-online-course-to-tackle-ethically-unsound-research

  A free online course offered by our University and aimed at aspiring academics hopes to help tackle issues surrounding ethically unsound research.

• DNA and family history explored in public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

  The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.

• Geology researchers participate in Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society events

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/geology-professors-participate-in-leicester-literary-and-philosophical-society-events

  Founded in 1835, The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society predates the University by over a century, yet it was an integral catalyst in the formation of the University of Leicester and much of our histories are entwined.

• Myths and Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry, 8 May 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/medieval/events/archive/public-lectures/bayeux-tapestry

  Myths and Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry was a lecture by Dr Michael Lewis (FSA MCIfA), Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum, London, and an acknowledged expert on the Tapestry.

• Leicestershire and Rutland’s finest archaeological finds to be showcased at University of Leicester conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/ulas

  ULAS will be offering talks with local experts including: 'Crafting with bark: experiments to remake the Enderby Shield' with Matthew Beamish, ULAS 'Taking stock of the pot: Creating and re-creating the Glenfield Iron Age cauldrons' with John Thomas,...

• Partnerships

  https://le.ac.uk/dickens-code/about/partnerships

  Find out more about our partners for 'The Dickens Code.' Including: the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Charles Dickens Museum and the Free Library of Philadelphia.

• University of Leicester marks Holocaust Memorial Day

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/hmd

  The University of Leicester will mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday, 27 January with a number of events organised by the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and University of Leicester Students’ Union.

• Leicester Criminologist presents evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/leicester-criminologist-presents-evidence-to-the-all-party-parliamentary-group-on-british-muslims

  Neil Chakraborti, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Leicester Centre for Hate Studies, has been asked to provide expert evidence to an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims.

• Ancient History and Classical Archaeology MA, PGDip, PGCert, by distance learning

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/ancient-history-and-classical-archaeology-ma-dl/2026

  Combine the study of ancient history with archaeology to explore the societies of Greece and Rome, those that surrounded them, and their influence both on the past and the modern world