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Spectre trailer suggests that Bond is going back to his roots says researcher
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/spectre-could-take-james-bond-back-to-his-roots-researcher-says
Professor James Chapman from the Department of the History of Art and Film has been featured in an article for the Mirror discussing the new trailer for the upcoming James Bond film Spectre and ways in which it alludes to the franchise's past.
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Blazing Car Murder update
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/blazing-car-murder-update
The search continues to identify a man who died in a burning car almost 85 years ago. In October, we reported that progress had been made in the investigation to try and identify the victim of a car fire in Northamptonshire in 1930.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 17 23 September
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-17-23-september
Stephanie Gordon, a final year doctoral student in the Department of Politics and International Relations, has written an article for The Conversation about the Uighurs - a Muslim Turkic ethnic group, most of whose Chinese population reside in China’s north-western Xinjiang...
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PhD student challenging the scientist stereotype at Soapbox Science event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/phd-student-challenging-the-scientist-stereotype-at-soapbox-science-event
A Leicester PhD student will be speaking about her involvement in Leicester’s Juno group at an outreach event aimed at increasing the visibility of women in science.
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Expert opinions cover gravitational waves pornography and the Sex Buyer Law
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/expert-opinions-cover-gravitational-waves-pornography-and-the-sex-buyer-law
Professor Andrew King from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has written an article for The Conversation discussing the LIGO experiment to detect gravitational waves in space.
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Project to strengthen reputation with South American mining sector
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/project-to-strengthen-reputation-with-south-american-mining-sector
A geologist from our University has been awarded a ‘Chile Prosperity Fund’ from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, aimed at developing and delivering Continuing Professional Development (CPD) short courses for the Chilean mining industry.
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Project to improve distraction burglary police detection
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/project-to-improve-distraction-burglary-police-detection
A new ‘best practice’ guide to help police forces detect cases of distraction burglary throughout the UK is being developed by our criminologists.
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Formula One Team Executive Director to give guest address at annual engineering lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/formula-one-team-executive-director-to-give-guest-address-at-annual-engineering-lecture
The Executive Director of the one of world's most successful Formula One teams, and the man behind Lewis Hamilton's race success, will be guest speaker at the University's 18th annual engineering lecture organised by the Department of Engineering.
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New study provides insights into complexities of gender at work
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-suggests-male-workers-in-typically-female-jobs-are-not-motivated-by-money
Men in typically female-dominated occupations tend to value the social aspects of their career over financial rewards, the findings of a study by Dr Catherine Steele from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour and a team at the University of...
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The Hodgkinson Group
https://le.ac.uk/hodgkinson-group
Led by Dr James T Hodgkinson, the Hodgkinson Group is a collective based within the School of Chemistry and the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology (LISCB). Learn more about us.