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• Prolific Shakespearean actor Michael Pennington to take part in Literary Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/prolific-shakespearean-actor-and-recent-king-lear-michael-pennington-to-take-part-in-literary-leicester

  Eminent stage actor, writer and director Michael Pennington will be delivering a talk and Q&A at our Literary Leicester festival on 16 November. Renowned for his performance as King Lear in New York 2014, Michael reprised the role for a major UK tour in 2016.

• Leicester welcomes over 1500 school students on campus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicester-welcomes-over-1-500-school-students-on-campus

  Over 1,500 students arrived on campus to experience a taste of university life as part of the Schools’ Taster Conference which took place on Thursday 29 June.

• Treatment which could prevent wound scarring to be presented

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/treatment-which-could-prevent-wound-scarring-to-be-presented

  Research at our University has revealed a potential treatment to prevent wound scarring that will soon be entering clinical trials.

• Overseas Field Option

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/gy3418

  Module code: GY3418 At the heart of this module is a week-long field trip to Berlin. The focus of the module thinks about geopolitics at the urban scale and the ways in which Berlin (and Germany’s) geopolitical history continues to shape the geography of the city.

• Everywhere and Nowhere: exploring histories of disability across the National Trust

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/everywhere-and-nowhere

  National Trust and University of Leicester launch new film to explore fascinating, previously untold stories of disability from the Trust’s sites and collections

• Alumna takes presenter role on BBC current affairs programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/alumna-takes-presenter-role-on-bbc-current-affairs-programme

  A Leicester geography graduate is to helm the BBC’s Inside Out East Midlands current affairs programme. Lukwesa Burak presented her first edition of the programme on Monday 5 September, which was a Brexit special focusing on the impact on the East Midlands.

• Professor Ryder and the Materials Group awarded European Commission H2020 research grant

  https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/professor-ryder-and-the-materials-group-awarded-european-commission-h2020-research-grant

  The University of Leicester Materials and Interfaces group has been awarded a new European Commission Horizon 2020 research grant for the project ‘A Marketable Polymer based Al-S battery’ (AMAPOLA).

• Leaders In Healthcare 2018: Rt Hon Matt Hancock

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/11/16/leaders-in-healthcare-2018-rt-hon-matt-hancock/

  Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on November 16, 2018   It would be interesting to hear from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care any day.

• What Brexit could mean for the University sector

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/what-brexit-could-mean-for-the-university-sector

  Professor Iain Gillespie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Enterprise at our University, has commented on how UK universities and EU funding will be affected by Brexit - and the need for the government to provide answers.

• Psychology annual lecture to explore controversy surrounding cognitive neuroscience

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/psychology-annual-lecture-to-explore-controversy-surrounding-cognitive-neuroscience

  Controversy surrounding the extent to which detailed information about brain activity can enhance our understanding of ourselves and how we tick will be examined at the annual Sluckin Lecture on 3 May.