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A Tale of Muslim Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/a-tale-of-muslim-britain
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first British Muslim woman to attend Parliament, spoke to a large and diverse audience at a Unit for Diversity, Inclusion & Community Engagement (DICE) public event held on 21 June at the University of Leicester.
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Crocus Sundays at the Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/11-crocus-sundays
On 23 February and 1 March the public are invited to visit our Botanic Garden in Oadby for the annual ‘Crocus Sundays’ display of spring flowers. At this time of year the Botanic Garden, one of Leicester’s hidden gems, presents a magnificent spectacle.
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Space Plasma Physics
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/planetary-science/space-plasma-physics
Space plasma physics is the study of the Sun’s hot, ionized outer atmosphere and its interactions with the planets and other bodies of the solar system.
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A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Differentiating High-Involvement Management from High-Performance Work Systems: Why it Matters for U
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/07/17/differentiating-high-involvement-management-from-high-performance-work-systems-and-why-it-matters-for-uk-productivity/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on July 17, 2020 Professor Stephen Wood argues that focusing on management practices that involve workers in workplace decisions could be the answer to the UK’s productivity crisis.
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Summer schools
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/summer-schools
Tenth ECORD Summer School: Downhole Logging for Marine Geoscience Location: University of Leicester campus Dates: 8-14 August 2026 Our Summer School introduces the interpretation and applications of downhole logs and physical property data primarily from the...
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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.
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Leicester maths graduates awarded fellowships with National Institute for Health and Care Research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/rahma-mahfuza-nihr
Two University of Leicester graduates have been awarded fellowships with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Rahma Said and Mahfuza Anisa both studied BSc Mathematics and graduated at De Montfort Hall last month.
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New grant to speed up bowel cancer diagnosis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/new-grant-to-speed-up-bowel-cancer-diagnosis
Scientists from Leicester, working with Edinburgh, have been awarded a grant of almost £25,000 from Bowel Cancer UK and Beating Bowel Cancer to investigate whether it’s possible to find DNA from cancer cells in stool samples.