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• FGM

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/fgm/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 Last week the UK’s first prosecution for female genital mutilation (FGM) failed amid controversy.  A cademics discuss whether the case should have been bought at all.

• Resources

  https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/dna/dna-schools-and-colleges/resources

  Here at The University of Leicester, we offer academic resources for schools and colleges on the topic of genetics.

• Crisis and Disaster Risk Management

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/crisis-and-disaster-risk-management

  Selected publications 2025 Bryce, C. , Dowling, M., Long, S. & Wardman, J. K. (2025). Media amplification under the floodlight: Contextualising 20 years of US risk news. Risk Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.17701 Yeboah, R., Ferdous, L. T., Gerged, A. M.

• Literary archives

  https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/literary-archives

  The University Library holds an extensive collection of library and archive collections of local literary figures.

• Post Doctoral and early Career Fellows

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/post-doctoral-and-early-career-fellows

  The School of History has an excellent track record for attracting and winning highly competitive post doctoral fellowships.

• On the staff: the rocking chair years University of Leicester staff blogs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/17/on-the-staff-the-rocking-chair-years/

  Posted by Gordon Campbell in School of English Blog on September 17, 2013 In most professions, retirement means stopping work, taking a long holiday, and turning to charitable and leisure pursuits, or possibly to drink.

• Leicester academic to lead UN session on transport of the future

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/sarah-jane-fox

  University of Leicester’s Dr Sarah Jane Fox will lead a session on sustainable transport at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland this month. The session is part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which is taking place from 27 May until 31 May.

• Turi King

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/turi-king

  Canadian Turi started as an archaeologist, studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, then switched to Genetics when she came to Leicester as a postgraduate.

• Student becomes youngest to graduate from Harvard

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/student-becomes-youngest-to-graduate-from-harvard

  Eugenie de Silva (pictured), who started reading for her PhD at Leicester aged 15, has become the youngest person to graduate from Harvard University.

• Hijacking of religious symbols by extremists intensifies rifts and tensions suggests academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2018hijacking2019-of-religious-symbols-by-extremists-intensifies-rifts-and-tensions-suggests-academic

  The ‘hijacking’ of religious symbols – such as beards, clothing and phrases - by extremists sullies their original use and intensifies rifts and tensions, according to Dr Saeeda Shah (pictured) from the School of Education.